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Omri Moran was on time for a first date, but the young woman, inexplicably, was late. She finally arrived, but skirted the question of her tardiness, saying “Never mind, you wouldn’t get it,” Mr. Moran recalled.
Not easily deterred, Mr. Moran, then the head of a geo-tracking start-up, persisted and discovered the reason: His date had ruined, and unsuccessfully tried to remedy, the new manicure she had gotten in anticipation of their meeting.
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Hundreds of people gathered for the first lecture at what had become the worldâs most important conference on artificial intelligence â row after row of faces. Some were East Asian, a few were Indian, and a few were women. But the vast majority were white men. More than 5,500 people attended the meeting, five years ago in Barcelona, Spain.
Technology|Hereâs a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
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A mosaic of about 50,000 images from the MegaFace dataset, which includes over 3.5 million.Credit.via Adam Harvey
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Hereâs a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
An online tool targets only a small slice of whatâs out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research fed on personal images.
A mosaic of about 50,000 images from the MegaFace dataset, which includes over 3.5 million.Credit.via Adam Harvey
Published Jan. 31, 2021Updated Feb. 1, 2021