So here is another step toward AGI, a hard image classification problem solved with near human-level ability, and all I hear is criticism. Sheesh! I hope your own work is not attacked like this.
I would understand if the researchers had proposed something stupid like using the software in court to distinguish adult and child pornography. Please try to distinguish between the research and the commentary by the reporters. A legitimate application could be estimating the average age plus or minus 2 months of a group of 1000 shoppers in a marketing study. In any case, machine surveillance is here to stay. Get used to it. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Thu, 10/2/08, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [agi] Let's face it, this is just dumb. > To: agi@v2.listbox.com > Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 6:21 AM > 2008/10/2 Brad Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It "boasts" a 50% recognition accuracy rate > +/-5 years and an 80% > > recognition accuracy rate +/-10 years. Unless, of > course, the subject is > > wearing a big floppy hat, makeup or has had Botox > treatment recently. Or > > found his dad's Ronald Reagan mask. 'Nuf > said. > > > Yes. This kind of accuracy would not be good enough to > enforce age > related rules surrounding the buying of certain products, > nor does it > seem likely to me that refinements of the technique will > give the > needed accuracy. As you point out people have been trying > to fool > others about their age for millenia, and this trend is only > going to > complicate matters further. In future if De Grey gets his > way this > kind of recognition will be useless anyway. > > > > P.S. Oh, yeah, and the guy responsible for this > project claims it doesn't > > violate anyone's privacy because it can't be > used to identify individuals. > > Right. They don't say who sponsored this > research, but I sincerely doubt > > it was the vending machine companies or purveyors of > Internet porn. > > > It's good to question the true motives behind something > like this, and > where the funding comes from. I do a lot of stuff with > computer > vision, and if someone came to me saying they wanted > something to > visually recognise the age of a person I'd tell them > that they're > probably wasting their time, and that indicators other than > visual > ones would be more likely to give a reliable result. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
