The last moment, the hour or the day before the deadline, should always be free. That’s your buffer zone. That’s your leverage of control – both inside and outside your mind. And the ubiquity of tech has rendered that buffered so thin that it’s bordering non-existence. But it’s up to us to impose to ourselves the discipline to retake it.
The future of our civilisation is not necessarily un dolce far niente for humans while machines do all the work. More likely, it’s a symbiotic future, where human get to do the cooler, more challenging, more value-adding parts of jobs, while machines take care of the rest. Therefore, not being able to interface with machines effectively 20-30 years from now will be the equivalent of illiteracy.
VisageCloud, a full-fledged face recognition solution, based on state-of-the-art deep learning, neural network and computer vision algorithms. It is available both as cloud-based software-as-a-service and as an on-premise installation. In support of the key recognition feature, the solution has built-in face key point detection and alignment, face classification on several attributes, such as gender, age group, eye color, hair color, skin color.
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