[geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

[Brian Dunbar]

Mark wrote:
> On 31 May 2007, at 19:15, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
>> What, like &imgtype="Mark Benson"?
>>
>> This is a one-time capture, not real-time! People seem to forget  
>> that - when we have a massive number of these cars[0] driving  
>> through your neighborhood AND they improve facial recognition AND  
>> you look at the car as it goes by AND Google knows your name/face  
>> connection, then, well, I guess it could be a bit frightning, but  
>> that is a bit out there, IMHO...
> 
> What if they introduce a 'nice ass' recognition and tie it into  
> Google Maps street view? Will we see lots of results like this:
> 
> http://maps.google.com/maps? 
> f=q&hl=en&q=googleplex&sll=37.448697,-120.948486&sspn=2.94791,5.141602&i 
> e=UTF8&t=h&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.424329,-122.160873&cbp=1,349.54174615675 
> 4,0.616426117417295,3&gl=us&ll=37.428354,-122.160652&spn=0.010156,0.0142 
> 91&z=16
> 
> Well... It had to be said :P
> 

You'll need to define what 'nice ass' is in your context.  It would be
unfortunate if they based that the 'nice ass' preference of a scruffy
hacker who has spent 20 hours a day bouncing back and forth between
'Second Life' and his workstation.

I will confess that I did now know you could do that with Google.

I don't want to be tiresome but .. so what?  If it can be done, it will
be.  If Google is doing it you'll know all about it.  If Homeland
Security* can you won't.

*and in this context doesn't that sound even more like something right
out of Orwell?

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