[ExI] computers now outperform humans at facial recognition

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Sun Jun 1 19:17:33 UTC 2014


On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> A really intriguing paper shows that we still do not know as much about deep
> learning as we thought:
>
> http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/7352-the-flaw-lurking-in-every-deep-neural-net.html
> http://cs.nyu.edu/~zaremba/docs/understanding.pdf
>
> Whether this is just a small technical issue to correct for (as they do, by
> training using the adversarial examples) or a profound insight into
> perceptual systems (maybe this is true for all brains, us included) remains
> to be seen.
>
>

And, of course, as sure as night follows day......

<http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html>
Quote:
The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of
people from communications that it intercepts through its global
surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition
programs, according to top-secret documents.

The spy agency's reliance on facial recognition technology has grown
significantly over the last four years as the agency has turned to new
software to exploit the flood of images included in emails, text
messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications, the
N.S.A. documents reveal.
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BillK



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