this Microsoft artificial intelligence (AI) to suspend sales of facial recognition toolsincluding software that can identify emotions from images of a person’s face. The decision was announced Tuesday (21).
According to the company, the use of these programs has raised discussions regarding users’ privacy. Such solutions have also been heavily criticized by experts for the technology’s inability to correlate facial expression with emotional state in some cases.
The decision was influenced by a major overhaul of the tech giant’s AI ethics policies, which emphasized more responsibility in the use of smart tools. In this way, access to some face recognition services (Azure Face) will be limited, while other features will be completely removed.
On the other hand, there will continue to be solutions with less harmful potential, such as those that blur faces in photos and videos, while their physical characteristics (age, beard, hair, gender, etc.)
Old customers will have access until 2023
From the suspension of commercialization AI facial recognition technologiesMicrosoft will no longer allow new users to access emotion detection tools and physical features. Old customers will be able to use them until 30 June 2023.
While public access is restricted, some of these resources will continue to be used by the company. See the AI application. The platform uses machine learning to identify scenes for the visually impaired.
Similar restrictions are provided for the function Special Neural SoundThis makes it possible to create artificial intelligence-powered synthetic voices based on recordings of real people. Technology is a kindsound deep fake” has the ability to deceive listeners, a use the developer intended to avoid.
Source: Tec Mundo
