The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently granted artificial intelligence giant Clearview AI a patent, to build a biometric facial training dataset.
The WinePress has noted some of Clearview’s other ventures, which can be read below:
U.S. Government To Expand Use Of Facial Recognition To Stop Criminals And A Host Of Other Things
The patent is titled ‘Scalable Training Data Preparation Pipeline And Efficient Distributed Trainer For Deep Neural Networks In Facial Recognition,’ which Clearview says it allows them to generate facial recognition that is highly precise and bias-free from publicly available information.
Biometric Update has more details on the patent and the company’s intent:
This distinction further cements Clearview AI’s intellectual property protection and lead in the artificial intelligence and facial recognition market.
Clearview AI’s mission is to reduce bias in technology, and as a person of mixed race this is highly important to me.
Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That, says
Ton-That and Clearview Vice President of Research Terence Liu discussed how clusters are built within training datasets and the importance of patenting the technology with Biometric Update in a recent interview.
Clearview’s approach to training data differs from that of some other facial recognition developers, who use datasets made up of celebrities that do not evenly represent all demographics.
Incumbent companies sometimes wait and see with new technologies to see the viability and adoption of them in the marketplace, then copy innovations later once they have been proven to be valuable.
These patents help protect us against a potential future competitor who would like to copy our facial recognition search engine, or our method for creating a highly accurate, bias-free facial recognition algorithm from large scale public internet datasets.
Ton-That adds.
Clearview says the success of its approach is reflected in its results in the NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test, including top-two results in the Wild category and better than 99 percent accuracy across all demographics.
The company was also awarded a patent for applying facial recognition to gather information from the public internet earlier this year.
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The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Proverbs 11:18
“reduce bias in technology” – what in the world does that mean (lol)?
Putting that aside, seeing what Clearview has also been involved with, it surely will not be for our good.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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