China´s latest AI champion says technical standards needed for healthy development of facial recognition industry
(World News Science)

When Xu Li first introduced his facial recognition technology to Chinese immigration officials, some of them seemed out of touch with advances in the technology. “We knew about it 20 years ago and, combined with fingerprint checks, the accuracy is only 53 per cent,� one of them told the CEO of SenseTime, an artificial intelligence start-up. That was the equivalent of a coin toss, with a 50/50 chance of getting it right, Xu pointed out to them. Today, SenseTime is a national AI......