Arguably adding to Facebook’s “creepy” factor, The Verge suggests that the social giant is far better at indentifying human faces than the FBI’s new Next Generation
Identification (NGI) face-recognition system. “Given a suspect's face, NGI returns a ranked list of 50 possibilities, and only promises an 85 percent chance of returning the suspect's
name,” The Verge reports. Facebook, meanwhile, “can tell you with 97 percent accuracy whether [two pictures are] the same person.”
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