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Why is the photo in your imaginary scenario low quality? Why do you think the plan is "infeasible and stupid"? You don't think the technology will catch up?
by the_doctah 3y ago
Why is the photo in your imaginary scenario low quality?
Why do you think the plan is "infeasible and stupid"? You don't think the technology will catch up?
- jerf 3y ago"These images, which were often poor quality, were captured from CCTV or employees’ mobile phone cameras." - the article "You don't think the technology will catch up?" First, technology can not transcend GIGO. GIGO is fundamental. Secondly: "When a customer entered a store who supposedly matched an existing image on its database, employees would receive an automatic alert instructing them to take action — and the majority of the time this instruction was to “approach and identify,” meaning verifying the customer’s identity and asking them to leave." - the article Face matching is not a hard problem for computers. Face matching is a hard problem, period. We humans seem to have dedicated hardware for it, and we are not generally a "dedicated hardware" sort of species when it comes to that sort of task. GIGO is fundamental for humans too.
- the_doctah 3y ago>Face matching is not a hard problem for computers. Face matching is a hard problem, period. If that were true, then federal law enforcement agencies wouldn't use social media as a database for facially recognizing people suspected of crimes.
- jerf 3y agoAs I stated in my other post, when you add more information into the scan the situation changes. Social media adds social network information which carries a lot of other info. The task of picking a face out of hundreds, matched with the other additional cues social media can add, is radically different than the task of picking a face out of the entire human population. It is the latter that is infeasible.