Facebook Says It Can Now Recognize You from the Back of Your Head

Well , this is chilling . The question of artificial intelligence information at Facebook now enjoin the societal meshwork ’s experimental facial acknowledgment technology is so advanced that it can read other clues in photos to acknowledge individuals . In other words , Facebook ’s technologyno longer needs to see your faceto know you ’re you .

The Facebook team direct by Yann LeCunrecently showed off the technologyat the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in Boston . The software is designed to look for other cues like hair coloring material , clothing , impersonate , and posture . “ There are a lot of cues we use . masses have characteristic aspects , even if you look at them from the back , ” LeCun read . “ For example , you may recognise Mark Zuckerberg very easily , because he always wears a white-haired T - shirt . ”

As of now , the observational Facebook algorithm can correctly identify people using these cues the vast majority of the time . In a test using 40,000 Flickr persona , the recognition technology correctly identified people 86 - percent of the time . This is obviously alarming if you like basic rights like privateness — not like you had much protectionfrom facial recognition technology anyways . Now if someone took a picture with you in the background , Facebook could apparently place and situate you . Facebook ’s facial recognition software system was already “ come near human - level performance . ” Now it vocalise super human .

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