My god man, I've not even had my breakfast yet.
I need eye bleach pronto.
At last - a cloud service that will get the unwashed masses excited about cloud: Amazon Web Services has added celebrity-spotting-as-a-service to its cloud. AWS has been doing this stuff since late 2016 when it launched “Rekognition”, a service that offered “deep learning-based image recognition” and therefore the chance to “ …
Now that the genie is out of the bottle, they'll all be releasing tools. At the moment it's limited to "celebrities", whoever they are, but Joe Bloggs is inevitable now.
Coupled with the huge image libraries that Google Photos, Amazon Drive and Facebook have privacy has just taken a huge leap backwards.
Give Google their due, they've had this product for years and not released it because they were concerned about the privacy implications (or too many people asking questions about their treasure chest of images).
Look El Reg, if you're looking to come (not the best turn of phrase) under Theresa May's* doctorine of purantanical internet censorship, you're going the right about it.
I'm at that stage in life where I'm beginning to forget my age (thirties) and I have enough passwords to remember as it is.
Still, I prefer the pint pulling version of Kim.
*I imagined Miss Piggy with short hair, and got Theresa May.
There'll be some kind of ranking system in effect, so results will be returned in order of social meeja standings....
e.g.
1. Sebastian Vettel (F1 driver)
2. Philip J Fry (Futurama)
Personally, I think Seb is Fry's German accented, racecar driving alter ego, but I can't prove it yet!
Icon because Bender.
So we now have a tool that can look at a photo and identify the celeb. How long before it looks at a photo and identifies the civilian from their social media?
Go out for a quiet drink and see someone nice, take a quick photo and before you know it you're a Facebook stalker.
...not found for those "celebrities" that have fallen out of favor, or who really shouldn't be "celebrities" in the first place. Maybe that is why it gave the wrong name.
Maybe AWS has an alternative motive in the first place.
Of course the real reason things like this exist is to allow us "normal" people to know just who they look like that is "famous". Yeah, that's the ticket.