‘Machine Learning Is Hard': Google Photos Has Egregious Facial Recognition Error

[AditiArora]

In May, Google unfurled its new Photos app as the crowning achievement of machine learning capabilities — a service that stores and catalogues your images with computing smarts that can pick out buildings, landscapes, animals, even abstract events like birthdays on its own.As users get their hands on the app, though, it’s evident Photos is far from perfect.

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To Google’s credit, its human ambassadors responded swiftly. Yonatan Zunger, an engineer and “chief architect” of Google+, the social service from which Photos was stripped, replied to Alciné on Twitter within roughly ninety minutes, noting that he had alerted the Photos team.