I remember when I was at York in the late 80s there was an open-day demo that was supposed to be able to recognise faces by neural nets.
It was unable to distinguist between one bald lecturer and a sheet of white card, and between one of our Kenyan research students and the camera being switched off.
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Date: 2006-06-13 08:04 pm (UTC)It was unable to distinguist between one bald lecturer and a sheet of white card, and between one of our Kenyan research students and the camera being switched off.
I wasn't terribly impressed. ;)