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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Facial Recognition Machinery, Part 3

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Chances are, your face is already part of the database -- and AI is getting better and better at reading one face and finding it in the vast sea of digital images. What does this mean for the future of privacy? How did we get to this point in techno-history and where do we go from here? In this multi-episode look from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore facial recognition technology.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

1:47.8

And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part three of our journey through facial recognition.

1:53.6

In the first episode, we talked a lot about the sort of the current landscape of the company

1:58.7

focusing on facial recognition, some issues with that. In the last episode, we focused primarily on

2:03.6

the biological domain of facial recognition. And now we're bringing it back to technology to

2:09.5

to finish up today. So one of the things that we were looking at coming into today's episode

2:15.6

was an article that I thought was really good in Wired Magazine, again from this month from

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