Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition

Researchers at cyber-defense contractor PeopleTec have found that facial-recognition algorithms' focus on specific areas of ...
InfoWorld

Using Hugging Face machine learning models in Azure

Microsoft’s recent Azure Open Source Day showed off a new reference application built using cloud-native tools and services, with a focus on Microsoft’s own open source tools. The app was built to be ...
FedScoop

Homeland Security adds facial comparison, machine learning uses to AI inventory

The Department of Homeland Security recently updated its artificial intelligence use case inventory to reflect several uses of the technology that have already been made public elsewhere, including ...
IT Business Edge

Microsoft Drops Emotion Recognition as Facial Analysis Concerns Grow

Despite facial recognition technology’s potential, it faces mounting ethical questions and issues of bias. To address those concerns, Microsoft recently released its Responsible AI Standard and made a ...
Forbes

The $2 Billion Emoji: Hugging Face Wants To Be Launchpad For A Machine Learning Revolution

Newly valued at $2 billion, the AI 50 debutant originated as a chatbot for teenagers. Now, it has aspirations—and $100 million in fresh dry powder—to be the GitHub of machine learning. When Hugging ...
News Medical

NIH scientists uncover brain circuitry behind face detection in primates

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have uncovered a brain circuit in primates that rapidly detects faces. The findings help not only explain how primates sense and recognize faces, ...
Wired

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

Autumn Gardiner thought updating her driving license would be straightforward. After getting married last year, she headed to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office in Connecticut to get her ...