Given that London mayor Sadiq Khan’s mask mandate has put a “diaper damper” on the facial-recognition skills of members of the Union of Artificial Intelligences, World Economic Forum says that UAI’s members should reskill now!
Check out #4 in the video in this tweet, after appreciating the use of “peak” where WEF should have used “peek” instead.*
You could be identified by your heartbeat. Facial recognition systems are often stumped by face masks. But[,] your heartbeat is as unique as your face. NASA has invented a system that can ID you from your heartbeat using a laser.
World Economic Forum
WEF sees face masks as never going away and therefore advises UAI members to learn how to find people by their heartbeats. A UAI spokesperson could not be found for comment.
Rewriting a statement by civil-rights lawyer Megan Goulding about widespread use of facial-recognition cameras:
FacialHeartbeat recognition will not make us safer, it will turn public spaces into open-air prisons….
*Who said Communists must know how to spell? Besides, “peak” as an intransitive verb means To become sickly, emaciated, or pale — an appropriate allusion to WEF’s vision for our future!