Google’s New Facial Recognition System

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Via: Fortune:

New advances in facial recognition are a step forward for an artificial intelligence technique called deep learning.

“I never forget a face,” some people like to boast. It’s a claim that looks quainter by the day as artificial intelligence research continues to advance. Some computers, it turns out, never forget 260 million faces.

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As consumer robots, driverless cars and smart homes become real, deep learning will be there, too, providing the eyes, ears, and some of the brains for our new toys. DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense’s research agency, is also investigating how deep learning techniques might be able to help it make sense of the streams of communications crossing intelligence networks everyday.

Something tells me it’s looking at Google’s FaceNet and getting pretty excited, too.