AI ethics overhaul: Microsoft to phase out public access to controversial facial recognition tool - WION

Microsoft has announced that it is updating its AI ethical guidelines and will no longer permit businesses to use its technology to infer things like emotion, gender, or age using facial recognition technology.

One of Microsoft's AI-powered facial analysis products, which purports to determine emotions based on videos and images of participants, is apparently being phased out of public access. Because there… [+2441 chars]

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