Which job is AI going to eat next? Step forward, CCTV operators

NEC Corporation, one of Japan's biggest IT providers, says it has built an AI that can rapidly search CCTV footage and spot a specific person out of a million or more faces. The application – snappily titled NeoFace Image data mining – can find wanted criminals, missing kids, and so on, all from video surveillance. We're told "when searching video where roughly one million individual instances of facial data appear, the software is capable of conducting searches within approximately 10 seconds." In other words, you can feed 24 hours of CCTV into NeoFace, and it could identify, say, a million faces in the video frames. Then when you need to find a sought-after person, the software will take just seconds to scan the database and locate them.