I see Google+ has added a cutesy feature called "Find My Face", that let you tag your face in pictures posted to Google+. (They're really big on that. If you upload all your photo albums to it, even private, it'll try to assign a name to faces so that it can group the pictures by people even if you don't tell it who's in a particular picture.) Anything that powerful, dumb and a bit creepy needs to be messed with. Create a scratch identity on Google+, assign all sorts of public metadata: Best Friend: Adolph Hilter. Claim to fame: Biggest dooshnossle in the world! .. Then look for all available pictures on Google+ with a certain short cult arsehole. "Find My Face" the bunch of them. With luck, the metadata will start sticking to the images and turn up strangely connected. Call it: Operation Fuck My Face. And all perfectly legal too!
Hey All, I am doing a project about this and would love to chat with anyone who actually uses this Find My Face application. If you do, please respond here, and I will get back to you with details of how to contact me. Thanks for the help.
With what Google is now able to do with their ANN (Deep Dream and their search ranking algorithm for example), this is becoming dangerous and creepy. They seem to have found some important stuff. They now seem to be using ANN everywhere and they are progressing exponentially. All Google+ users are able to improve the system, just by helping Google find out who is present in their pictures. Millions of non linear inputs from all around the world, this is a dream for people who use neural networks. Moreover, G+ users do it for free. So : They are building an artificial brain that learns to recognize people. They have a search ranking algorithm that now understands concepts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hummingbird). They have a program which can recognize objects, shapes, and what is happening inside a picture (http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/18/new-google-research-project-can-auto-caption-complex-images/). They are pretty advanced in speech recognition and translation (https://translate.google.fr/ even though it sometimes suck). So, they potentially could build a machine that can see, understand, learn, speak and know everything that Google search have indexed on the internet ... I'm glad they didn't take a look at self-driving vehicles ... oh, wait ...
Google's sexist ad algorithm Women less likely to be shown ads for high-paid jobs on Google, study shows Automated testing and analysis of company’s advertising system reveals male job seekers are shown far more adverts for high-paying executive jobs http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/08/women-less-likely-ads-high-paid-jobs-google-study
