China is building a world where Algorithms know your Face

China is changing how we think of surveillance and facial recognition as a unique universal identifier. This is the kind of infrastructure China requires to build its nascent social credit system that will go live for all of China by 2020. Powerful facial recognition systems like the ones built by Shanghai-based start-up Yitu Technology, also promotes more security for China to police its huge population. YITU Tech integrates state-of-the-art AI technologies with industrial applications to build a safer, faster and healthier world. For those of you who remember the show Person of Interest, it's fond memories for going back to the future.