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British police to trial facial recognition system that detects your mood:
A British police force is set to trial a facial recognition system that infers people's moods by analyzing CCTV footage.
Lincolnshire Police will be able to use the system to search the film for certain moods and facial expressions, the London Times reports. It will also allow cops to find people wearing hats and glasses, or carrying bags and umbrellas.
The force has got funding from the Home Office to test the tool in the market town of Gainsborough, but ethical concerns have delayed the pilot's launch.
A police spokesperson told the Times that all the footage will be deleted after 31 days. The force will also carry out a human rights and privacy assessment before the trial gets the green light.
[...] "At the same time as these technologies are being rolled out, large numbers of studies are showing that there is... no substantial evidence that people have this consistent relationship between the emotion that you are feeling and the way that your face looks," AI Now's co-founder Prof Kate Crawford told the BBC late last year.
Could it be it was thrown off because everyone had a stiff upper lip?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday August 18 2020, @06:04PM (10 children)
Why do you think the jihadi would be disgruntled? After all, he believes that he'll soon get 72 virgins.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2020, @07:12PM (1 child)
There's a reason they're virgins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2020, @07:44PM
They're the 72 previous jihadis dressed up in wigs and a skirt and fully shaving for that first non-virgin experience.
Sure they lose out on punishing one virgin, but he has to live with discovering those 72 hole were not pussies...
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Tuesday August 18 2020, @08:16PM (5 children)
72 virgins... in all eternity...
It's like a LAN party that never ends.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2020, @08:34PM (3 children)
Nobody ever mentions where those virgins come from. I find it hard to imagine that they're volunteers.
What happens once each is deflowered? Do they each disappear and get replaced by a new one, so that it's an eternal, revolving count of 72? Surely the supply would quickly dwindle.
Does their gender vary? The promise is for virgins, after all, not female virgins. If the gender varies, is it reasonable to assume species might, as well? Good luck deflowering the virgin grizzly bear.
Are they ether-spawned creations? If yes, does that make them any different from a Fleshlight or a melon?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @05:41AM
Hah, you're making one hell of a presumption there..
Grizzlies..I like the way you think..alas! the tradition calls for goats....sheep, at a pinch (fuck em, then turn them into kebabs...have a look at the increase in sheep rustling in the UK for the areas adjacent to the Muslim heartlands)
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday August 19 2020, @09:20AM
The solution is probably much easier. They're 72 virgins allright, but your balls stay down here on earth. And they're male. And horny. And not too choosy.
Hey, gotta read the fine print!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 19 2020, @10:17AM
I gather they get reflowered. Allah has this figured out.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday August 18 2020, @09:26PM
Do you remember the last scene in the old 1960s Star Trek episode "I, Mudd" ?
It's more like 72 copies of Mudd's old and endlessly nagging wife.
For eternity.
In a walmart.
With no exits.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 18 2020, @09:45PM (1 child)
72 virgins? That sounds like hell.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @01:58PM
72 Incels.