The Internet of Eyes

Super interesting article in the New Yorker about the advances of facial recognition and its potential abuses.  Some points that caught my eye:

• There’s a start up (Cainthus) that apparently has cracked the code on providing facial recognition for cows. Yes cows. Hence the cow photo.
• I.B.M. has a system which is able to automatically generate highlight reels from raw sports footage by analyzing things like crowd cheers, announcer excitement, fist pumps, high fives, and the location of the three-point-shot line.  Wow.
• China has nearly two hundred million public-surveillance cameras, far more than any other country.

Definitely worth a read. Scary.