Amazon Rekognition: The View from Harrods Creek
July 29, 2018
I read the stories about Amazon’s facial recognition system. A representative example of this genre is “Amazon’s Facial Recognition Tool Misidentified 28 Members of Congress in ACLU Test.” The write up explains the sample. The confidence level was set at 80 percent. Amazon recommends 95 percent.
The result? Twenty eight individuals were misidentified.
At a breakfast meeting this morning (Sunday, July 29, 2018) one uninformed Kentucky resident asked:
What if these individuals are criminals?
Another person responded:
Just 28?
I jotted down the remarks on my mobile phone. Ah, the Bluegrass state.
Stephen E Arnold, July 29, 2018
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