On: Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras

[walrus01]

> I wish researchers would start to think more creatively about what we can do with large video datasets and tools like face recognition.

Some very smart people in China did exactly that, and arrived at a conclusion on what the local market for surveillance tech was lacking. Based on what the government will fund, they came up with an answer we seem to dislike.

[make3 → walrus01]

I think he means, aside from dystopian population surveillance

[jerkstate → make3]

yeah, like a thing that would remind me what peoples names are at parties.

probably not as much money in that though.

[make3 → jerkstate]

you can probably scrape your own Facebook friends' pictures & use the GCS or Azure free services