Baidu AI helps parents find their abducted son 27 years later

Facial recognition tech has loads of application other than the creepy ones that put your privacy at risk. In China, for instance, it has helped a couple find their son 27 years after he was abducted. Fu Gui thought it was strange that he only had vague memories of his childhood, so he uploaded a photo taken when he was 10 years old to a website called Baobeihuijia, which translates to "Baby Come Home." Little did he know that his parents would also upload his childhood photos on the website a few months later and that Baidu's facial recognition tech would bring them back together. Tens of thousands of kids are abducted in China every year and are either sold to foster parents or to more sinister individuals who'd use them for prostitution or child slavery.