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Facebooks facial recognition software is now as accurate as the human brain but what now?
2014-03-19 18:38:15| Extremetech
Facebook's facial recognition research project, DeepFace (yes really), is now very nearly as accurate as the human brain. DeepFace can look at two photos, and irrespective of lighting or angle, can say with 97.25% accuracy whether the photos contain the same face. Humans can perform the same task with 97.53% accuracy. The end goal of DeepFace we can only guess at, but it's probably tracking your face across the entirety of the web, and in real life, as you move from shop to shop, producing some very lucrative behavioral tracking data indeed.
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