#misidentification

#misidentification

AI-powered enhancement has a tendency to hallucinate facial details leading to an enhanced image that may be visually clear, but that may also be devoid of reality with respect to biometric identification,

No one heads down to the DMV, or to their state's Department of Driver Services, expecting to have a positive experience. This loathing for the most pedantic elements of our state bureaucracies is more or less baked into us at the cellular level at this point: I would wager that most people would prefer to go to their dentist for tooth drilling, or be summoned for jury duty, than face the prospect of waiting for hours at the DMV only to be told that they haven't brought the right forms or proof of ID or address to make a desperately needed change.

I was like, okay, it's stupid. It makes a mistake, Moran said. Finally I said, hey, I'm Terry, tell me why you were calling me Joni.' [It]says, because you told me to.' I said, where did I tell you to?' It got in a fight. It was like angry. I am programmed to do what you tell me. You call yourself Joni.' I said, I have never done such.'

The whole thing unraveled quickly, according to local reporting. When the alert went out, it triggered an automatic "code red," giving administrators no choice but to react to the AI system's decision. Luckily nobody was hurt, and local police soon declared the lockdown over. "The code red was a precaution and the children were never in any danger," local police wrote in a Facebook post.

Turns out, the Times of London reporter Bevan Hurley hadn't talked to the former New York City mayor. The actual former mayor put out a statement on social media saying the quotes were not his, and that he never spoke to Hurley. The paper quickly yanked the story from its website and said it had personally apologized to de Blasio.

In late August, Fotheringham was reported to police after he "indicated that he wanted to shoot up a school," prosecutors had alleged. However, officials "learned of a discrepancy which made further prosecution in the District Court no longer available, and the Commonwealth entered a nolle prosequi in the case supported by an affidavit by the prosecutor assigned to the case,"

Four years after a stunning mishap where the SF Medical Examiner notified a family that their father had been declared dead, and then he turned up alive, the same man has, in fact, now died. It was exactly one year ago today when the Chronicle broke the story that a man who the SF Medical Examiner's Office had declared dead, and even sent his family the ashes, was actually still very much alive on the streets of San Francisco.