Facial Recognition technology has made incredible advancements in recent years and is becoming more and more prevalent in society. William Lark shares the history of how this amazing technology came to be from the early Bertillon Cards in the 19th Century up through the sophisticated applications used today in the iPhone X.
1:37 1800s: Crime, Anthropometry, and Bertillon Cards
3:43 1960s: Bledsoe, Sutherland, and the CIA
7:20 1990s: Eigenfaces, the Superbowl, and the Department of Defense
18:10 2000s: Neural Nets, Social Networks, and Deep Learning
32:04 Applications: Surveillance, Authentication, Retail, Advertising and Toilet Paper
34:15 Caveats: Algorithmic Bias and The Virtual Lineup
36:44 The Future: Radical Scale and The Ethics Economy
