Re:Rite Aid banned from using face recognition software afte...
by the_doctah on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @02:43PM
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>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.
Re:Rite Aid banned from using face recognition software afte...
by jerf on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @03:55PM
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As 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.
"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.