What would you say if I told you that'Imperfect' artificial intelligence (AI) can do more for your business than facial recognition ever will? Your response might be to suggest that facial recognition is needed for 100% accuracy in data insights, and you probably think that this is important for keeping up with the competition. You may also tell me that it's necessary to meet growing customer expectations, or even go into the things that you'just can't do' without it. But one thing you won't be able to argue is that facial recognition technology is good for compliance. The use of facial recognition is on the rise and causing a stir across Europe, with 11 EU nations reportedly already using it, and the European Data Watchdog warning that nations are not ready for AI-powered surveillance.

Roundup Welcome to this week's machine learning musings. Google has upset city officials by trying to improve its facial recognition technology, and the new TensorFlow 2.0 has been released. Google offered $5 gift vouchers to black homeless people and Atlanta city isn't happy: Facial recognition datasets are unfairly dominated with images of white men, so Google hired third-party contractors to go around recording people's faces by offering them vouchers. The temp agency, Randstad, were told to target people of darker skin, and, unfortunately, some of those people were homeless people living on the streets in Atlanta. The methods used to tempt them were ethically dubious.