What's In A Face: How technology uses our faces

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Original broadcast date: December 9, 2022. We think our faces are our own. But technology can use them to identify, influence and mimic us. This week, TED speakers explore the promise and peril of turning the human face into a digital tool. Guests include super recognizer Yenny Seo, Bloomberg columnist Parmy Olson, visual researcher Mike Seymour and investigative journalist Alison Killing.

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0:59.0	What in a face?
1:01.0	Do you have any idea how long a face will stay in your mind? Like once it's in there is it there forever?
1:08.8	I actually don't know but I mean as an example I have come across faces that I remember seeing from
1:16.7	when I was younger than 10 so... Oh wow. Yeah, so I have come across like
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