China's AI firm takes big leap, develops technology to scan 2 billion people at one go

If you're an employee at China's Yitu Technologies, you must be used to working in an Iron Man-like world where machines around you are smarter and more efficient than you can ever be. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) that controls the office has facial recognition capability encompassing 1.8 billion faces. It has also helped to catch criminals in China. AI will create more change in the world than the industrial revolution put together, said Zhu Long, Yitu Technologies' co-founder. His statement is evident in his company's headquarters where the elevators work by reading employees' passcards automatically and dropping them on their respective floors, without even having to press a button.