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Posted on 2018 May 21 by polgarp · Tagged in AI fail, Police, and Facial recognition
Original link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/met-police-facial-recognition-success-south-wales-trial-home-office-false-positive-a8345036.html
Although it’s just an experiment, and it’s just fair to test a new system before deploy, but the false positive rate here is astonishingly bad. The original training set and / or the algorithm must be deeply flawed. I have to wonder how many false negatives does their system produce?