Facebook’s AI lab can recognize face with 97.25% accuracy which is 0.25% less than the accuracy with which humans recognize a face. It is interesting to know that Amazon’s Facial Recognition technology often mistakes dark-skinned women for men!! Yes, you read it right. Study suggests Facial Recognition to be racist and gender-biased. Well, this is not some sort of anti-racist technology. The real reason behind this discrimination is that they don’t have lot of database of African People.
So, can we really conclude that Artificial Intelligence based Facial Recognition is really worth replacing other static bio-metric methods like fingerprints, iris scan, palm recognition and many others. As Brian Reed has correctly quoted “Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.”
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Kriti Singhal
Very well written.
24 Jul 2019, 07.14 PM
Sitanshu Nandan
Sitanshu Nandan is an MBA candidate at IIT Kanpur.
The article is urgently required to be attended to. Thank you for writing about it.
24 Jul 2019, 07.31 PM
Naveen Bagga
Live Life Aam Aadmi Size. A loyal Arsenal and Kings XI Punjab fan (Yes, life hasn't been this easy for me), currently pursuing MBA in IME, IIT Kanpur. A former employee of EY, EX-SRM-ITE. Blockchain enthusiast and Interested in Analytics.
Awesome article Indeed!
24 Jul 2019, 10.35 PM