Over the past few years, computers have become incredibly good at recognizing faces. The technology is expanding quickly in China in the interest of both surveillance and convenience. Face recognition payments might transform everything from policing to the way people interact every day with banks, stores, and transportation services.
Facial recognition has existed for decades, but only now is it accurate enough to be used in secure financial settings. The new versions use deep learning, an artificial-intelligence technique that is especially effective for image recognition. It makes a computer zero in on the facial features that will most reliably identify a person.
