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I think the big thing people forget when they automate systems is that they make them too strict. As in you're always expected to fit within the parameters and
by daemin 9y ago
I think the big thing people forget when they automate systems is that they make them too strict. As in you're always expected to fit within the parameters and pattern of behaviour that the system was built with. It tolerates no deviation.
However as with all human things, it is better and less trouble to be able to take shortcuts rather than have to stick to the rules 100%. For example people crossing the road in the middle of the night with not a car in sight. People reversing down the road a little bit to turn or get a parking spot. Being able to cross the centre green patch on a high way at night because there won't be a u-turn available for many kms. The issues with identical twins and not being able to get IDs (basically the inability to override a system).
These sort of issues help remove stress and simplify things in our daily lives, and help make the world function.
- cpncrunch 9y agoWhat has that got to do with the article? Facial recognition isn't crime detection...it's recognising someone who has an arrest warrant (or in this case, perhaps also checking against a list of banned hooligans), i.e. it either is the person or it isn't.
- daemin 9y agoMy comment was on people putting too much trust into computerised systems, of which facial recognition is one. It also referenced comments other people had made here for when the rules and programming in such a computerised system broke down in the real world. In the case of facial recognition there was examples of twins being rejected for IDs because the system thought it was the same person applying under different names. I'd also be dubious as how well it can identify people based on grainy and low resolution camera footage.