Facial recognition is expanding its watchful eye but suffers from notable fails

Fox News correspondent Douglas Kennedy has the details on software that could'transform society' on'America's Newsroom.' The use of facial recognition technology, a form of biometric artificial intelligence, is growing across the U.S. as an efficient security system that can identify people based on measuring facial features, but has been hit with some notable criticisms. Police departments, the health care industry, and companies looking to fight back against cyber fraud have rolled out the technology in recent years to bolster security measures. The tech is far from new, with its roots stretching back to the mid-1960s, when researchers in Palo Alto pioneered training computers to recognize faces, and has exploded in use since around 2010. Today, machine learning algorithms - a subset of artificial intelligence that uses data and algorithms to mimic how humans learn - has fine-tuned the technology. The tech can measure and identify facial measurements in a photo or video, and cross-analyze whether two photos or videos show the same person, or even pick a person out in a crowd of people, Amazon Web Services explains.