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Image-rec startup for cops, Feds can probably identify you from 3 billion pics it's scraped from Facebook, YouTube etc

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

...and yet intelligent humans can recognise faces almost from birth. It appears AI has a hell of a long way to go to assimilate those facial recognition (currently poor) algorithms. I suppose your AI could have a go at identifying faces created in ASCII art since that's a textual format.

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