alt Hacker NewsThe “I” in “AI” stands for “intelligence”. Cops are using AI facial recognition because it is being sold to them as being smarter and better than what they are currently capable of. Why are we then surprised that they aren’t second-guessing the technology?
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re-thc • today at 10:14 AM
> The “I” in “AI” stands for “intelligence”
By that logic the “I” in Siri is 2x more intelligent.
lotsofpulp • yesterday at 11:34 PM
Because they are supposed to possess minimum levels of intelligence found in homo sapiens, which includes not believing anything a salesperson says.
Also, their whole job is dealing with people who constantly lie to them.
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AI facial recognition is smarter than what they are capable of. That's not the issue. It is much faster than a human, and state-of-the-art models make fewer errors than a human (though the types of errors are not the same).
The issue is that facial recognition is just not very reliable. Not for humans and not for machines. If you look at millions of people, some of them just look incredibly similar. Yet police apparently thought that was all the evidence they will ever need. A case so watertight there's no point in even talking to the suspect