Facial recognition in China is "absolutely correct" and "spot on", the head of the Metropolitan Police Federation has said, calling for it to be deployed in London "on a 24-hour basis". Ken Marsh, who is chairman of the Metropolitan Police staff association, said he believed the "fantastic" technology could be used to catch criminals and terrorists. Mr Marsh gave the example of the 2017 London Bridge attack, when police lost track of the terrorists in the run-up to the killings. He said: "Facial recognition, if it was pointed in certain areas in London on a 24-hour basis, could pick these individuals up… if we could have stopped that I'm all for this." The Chinese government has invested heavily in facial recognition, deploying it in the country's massive network of CCTV cameras.

Today, every man, women and child no matter his or her origin, race, or economic circumstance can enrich their lives through educational made available through AI/ML educational learning systems. The caveat is connectivity access. Education assures equality and I believe is a better use of appropriated inequality funds rather than doling them out. I am a proponent of "teaching to fish" for the long-term. Education for all peoples in all countries with all languages will be as equally disseminated depending on the availability of connectivity and AI/ML educational systems.

The China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing is testing an AI-based facial recognition system in its classrooms, in order to monitor student behavior and identify those that skip classes. According to local publication The Paper, the system, developed by Chinese startup Megvii, can automatically check attendance and report whether students are paying attention, reading, playing with their phone or napping. It also tracks how many times a student has raised their hand. The same facial recognition system is being used across the campus for access control, securing gates to facilities like libraries, laboratories and student dormitories. Xu Jianzhen, director of the Library and Information Center of China Pharmaceutical University, told The Paper that once student details are in the system, individual students can be recognized in just a second, making it faster and more convenient than alternative methods of access control.

With this number of users, activity, and content, it makes sense for YouTube to take advantage of the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help operations. Here are a few ways YouTube, owned by Google, uses artificial intelligence today. In the first quarter of this year, 8.3 million videos were removed from YouTube, and76% were automatically identified and flagged by artificial intelligence classifiers. More than 70% of these were identified before there were any views by users. While the algorithms are not foolproof, they are combing through content much more quickly than if humans were trying to monitor the platform singlehandedly.

Rightly or wrongly, the AI-driven world has come to typify the woes of modern economic life, as tech giants such as Facebook and Alphabet amass vast fortunes, due in large part to the huge quantities of data that users often freely provide them. Accusations of economic imbalance tend to be multi-faceted. Not only do these companies typically employ fewer people than the industrial titans of yore, but they also attract the ire of officials over their tax practices and have grown insanely rich off the back of something users receive no compensation for. It's helped to create a world in which the haves are increasingly well off, while the have nots make do with insecure and poorly paid work. Nowhere is this exchange more evident than in the data annotation industry, where people from around the world help to prepare and tidy up the data used by the tech giants to train the algorithms upon which their fortunes increasingly rest.

With a simple development platform, SardineChian hopes to provide technical services for as much developers as possible. NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / September 3, 2019 / SardineChain is aptly named, as these small fish are known for the large groups which they form, and the physical equality within these groups. SardineChain is a decentralized public blockchain adopting the SCP consensus mechanism. It's core strengths lie in the field of consensus algorithms, smart contracts and cross-chain contracts, catering for technology developers. With a simple development platform, SardineChian hopes to provide technical services for as much developers as possible.

Depression is a worldwide health predicament, affecting more than 300 million adults. It is considered the leading cause of disability and contributor to the overall global burden of disease. Detecting people in need of advanced depression care is crucial. Now, a team of researchers at the Regenstrief Institute found a way to help clinicians detect and identify patients in need of advanced care for depression. The new method, which uses machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI), can help reduce the number of people who experience depressive symptoms that could potentially lead to suicide.

A man from Cardiff, UK, says the police breached his human rights when they used facial recognition technology, but today a court ruled that the police's actions were lawful. That is, however, hardly the end of the matter. South Wales Police has been trialling automated facial recognition (AFR) technology since April 2017. Other forces around the country are trialling similar systems, including London's Metropolitan Police. Bridges may have been snapped during a pilot called AFR Locate.

An artificial intelligence that detects, tracks and recognises chimpanzees could make studying animals in the wild more efficient. Arsha Nagrani at the University of Oxford in the UK and her colleagues have developed a facial recognition AI that can detect and identify the individual chimpanzees captured in video footage recorded in the wild. Using the AI, they can cut down the time and resources needed to track animals in their natural habitat. The algorithm could help researchers and wildlife conservationists study the complex behaviours of chimpanzees and other primates more efficiently. The team trained the AI on 50 hours of archival footage – spanning 14 years – of chimpanzees in Bossou, Guinea in West Africa.

By simply waving one's hand in front of a scanner, customers may soon be able to cash out at the health-centric grocery chain, Whole Foods, as soon as next year. Amazon, which purchased Whole Foods in 2017 for more than $13 billion, is reportedly developing computer vision technology that can judge the shape and size of customers' hands to create a unique handprint, according to sources cited by the New York Post. That data would then be linked to patrons' bank information, meaning customers would be able to waive their hands in front of scanner and complete the transaction in under a second. Whole Food will reportedly begin testing a technology that reads customers hand size and shape to make payments. Patrons will be able to wave their hands in front of a sensors and complete the transaction in under a second.