Someone takes your picture on the street, AI searches the Internet and finds everything about you
This is actually a technology that has been around for a while, but both Facebook and Google decided not to release it do to ethical problems, and probably more important to them, potential legal problems. Now this bio-metric recognition tech has been supercharged by AI and is about to go mainstream.
We are sure this tech isn’t being abused by law enforcement, or nasty totalitarian governments. Or random crazy people.
And soon, it’ll be available to anyone with a pair of $1000 smartglasses.
It’s not all bad. There is good that can come from this tech for sure. For instance a professor with 600 students could use it to instantly know the name of any student, their current grade, etc. That could be good we suppose.
But the idea that someone on the street can just snap a picture of you (or your child) and then pull up everything about you has a high creep factor.
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(From DNYUZ)
In his quest to create a groundbreaking and more lucrative app, Mr. Ton-That turned to free online resources, such as OpenFace — a “face recognition library” created by a group at Carnegie Mellon University. The code library was available on GitHub, with a warning: “Please use responsibly!”
“We do not support the use of this project in applications that violate privacy and security,” read the statement. “We are using this to help cognitively impaired users sense and understand the world around them.”
It was a noble request but completely unenforceable.
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