An automated facial recognition search error led to the wrongful arrest of a pregnant Black woman in Detroit. Porcha Woodruff, a 32-year-old licensed aesthetician and ...

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Deep learning, a type of AI, is used to achieve accurate image recognition and speech recognition. The method involves ingesting lots of data to train systems called neural networks, and then feeding ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Many facial recognition companies have ...

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Last week, the ACLU published an alarming report about errors made by Amazon’s Rekognition automated facial recognition technology. Photos of the 535 members of the U.S. Congress were compared to a ...

New research in the International Journal of Medical Informatics suggests there is a high prevalence of errors from speech recognition technology in emergency departments. Researchers randomly sampled ...

Blind recognition and identification of error correcting codes is an evolving field that addresses the challenge of inferring the underlying coding schemes in digital ...

Microsoft's speech recognition efforts have hit a significant milestone. It can now transcribe human speech with a 5.1% error rate, Microsoft technical fellow Xuedong ...

A Facebook face recognition notification slip-up hints at how risky the company’s approach to compliance with a tough new European data protection standard could turn out to be. On Friday a Metro ...

Porcha Woodruff is the sixth individual to claim that facial recognition technology led to false accusations against them. Her case marks the third instance involving ...