Smile to enter: China embraces facial recognition technology
By France 24
08 September 2017 |
8:00 am
Facial recognition is one of the fastest-evolving technologies in the field of artificial intelligence. It has major implications in terms of security and counter-terrorism, but also e-commerce and industry.
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