So many of us have used different Facebook applications to see us aging, turned into rock stars, or applied festive make-up. Such waves of facial transformations are usually accompanied by warnings not to share images of your faces – otherwise, they will be processed and misused.

So many of us have used different Facebook applications to see us aging, turned into rock stars, or applied festive make-up. Such waves of facial transformations are usually accompanied by warnings not to share images of your faces -- otherwise, they will be processed and misused. But how does AI use faces in reality? Let's discuss state-of-the-art applications for face detection and recognition. First, detection and recognition are different tasks. Face detection is the crucial part of face recognition determining the number of faces on the picture or video without remembering or storing details.

But bahgawd, the technology Apple is pulling off really is falling squarely into the realm of magical. Anyone else just wowed by the amount of technology embedded into this new iPhone? Our phones are learning more about us then we ever knew Before.