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KFC China Uses Facial Recognition To Recommend Menu Items

The Guardian, Monday, January 16, 2017 8:02 AM

KFC has teamed up with Baidu — the search engine company often referred to as “China’s Google” — to develop facial-recognition technology that can be used to predict customer’s orders. The artificial intelligence-enabled system can recommend menu items based on a customer’s estimated age and mood.

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R MARK REASBECK from www.USAonly.US , January 16, 2017 at 7:58 p.m.
Cyber racism ??
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Tanya Gazdik from MediaPost replied, January 16, 2017 at 11:44 p.m.

Definitely some sexism and ageism. I really want to go to China and go to a KFC and see what they suggest I order. Could be interesting to see how the algorithm responds to a non-Chinese person.