FYI not a meme.

BY KAIROS

Episode #7: Sorry Nic

A few weeks ago Hollywood Megastar Nicolas Cage stated he didn’t like all the Internet memes about him.

So, yeah, Mr. Cage — we’d like to publicly apologize for using your image in our latest guide to face rec tech. We must have missed the memo. Total coincidence, honest. 👀

We got a ton of great feedback, and honestly it really brings the article to life.

See for yourself:

Here’s a link to the blog you probably won’t read. How’d that get in here?? → https://www.kairos.com/blog/the-secret-to-better-face-recognition-accuracy-thresholds

Look at it this way: if the Hollywood work dries up you’ll always have the niche tech blogs to fall back on. 👍

Now, some links we liked that you might too…

And you thought YOUR passport photo was bad.

We’ll be really disappointed if he didn’t watch The Mummy on his inflight entertainment.

Also — “Profession: King” 😂

Doubling-down on Digital Doppelgängers.

This is a story about how we’ve all become slaves to our digital selves — feeding mega-corps with billions upon billions of data points in order to help them better sell their products to us. Or something like that.

Anyway, it’s kinda scary, epic, and already upon us 😬

Sneak peek…

”Each of us is now a split person — one human, one digital. As we become more and more reliant on the devices in our pockets or on our wrists, we — not to mention the companies and governments that rely on our accumulated data to determine our identity — may become less and less certain of which version of us is really us.”

Full peek…

How Tech Companies Create Your Digital Twin

Hold my Convolutional Neural Network.

Seoul-based artistic duo Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun asked a group of 10 different painters to confuses the heck out of face recognition algos.

Resulting in a series called: Nonfacial Portrait

A bunch of painted portraits that evade the algorithms*.

These portraits were painted to confuse facial recognition AI

*OpenCV face detection.

“Say cheese!! (strings)” 🤳

Artist turned Oscar winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has a new project. And it’s fascinating.

He’s basically going to take a photo of all of London’s 7 year olds (Seriously, good luck with that, lol). He wants to encapsulate the ‘identity’ of one of the world’s great melting pots — London.

Steve McQueen's school photo will open a window on to our collective soul | Susanna Rustin

The Identity Economy™ is written and curated by the team at Kairos.com.

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