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He uses facial recognition as an example of converting faces into mathematical topology and matching that model against a database.
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Facial recognition
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...do it for you. Okay? How? So let's for example use facial recognition technology."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...do it for you. Okay? How? So let's for example use facial recognition technology."
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Jiang describes the Hangzhou facial-recognition example as technology worship: using surveillance because it looks modern, not because it has passed a real educational evaluation.
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He argues that when China adopts edtech without such a process, it ends up using facial recognition to monitor behavior instead of solving the real engagement problem.
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"...about a very specific example. All right? So, let's look at facial recognition technology. All right? You go to the airport, and you're scanned,..."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? So, what I do is for the face, I create a mathematical model based on topology. Okay? Does that..."
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"that I can only look at your eyes and I know who you are okay because what I'm trying to do is match what..."
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"...there's some process, right? Technology worship is just like, we want facial recognition in the classroom, because it looks cool. Because parents are like,..."
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"...the effectiveness of edtech, we come to these silly scenarios where facial recognition technology is used in the classroom to monitor students rather than..."
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"...do it for you. Okay? How? So let's for example use facial recognition technology."
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"...figure out okay and one hard problem is the idea of facial recognition technology facial recognition how do I separate faces okay and so..."
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"...is human slaves that make AI possible. Why? Because, for example, facial recognition technology. You need human to actually input the faces manually. Okay?..."
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"...doing is I'm trying to optimize the algorithm. So, for example, facial recognition, right? How facial recognition works is through like a search and..."
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"...what the optimal algorithm is. OK, and that's why we have facial recognition technology. But this is what's really important to understand is like..."
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"...to watch out for what's already in place in China, the facial recognition on the street, the sending you a fine if you've jaywalked,..."
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"...great? You, before you had cell phones, then you had, uh, facial recognition. And in the future, you have implants. Microchip implants. Immigrants. Lots..."
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