Sometimes I have trouble remembering people's names (not face blindness or similar, just regular trouble I guess). I would love to have smart glasses that show the name of someone I've met before but don't quite remember. But alas, our society being what it is people will abuse facial recognition, so I can't have that it seems...
Or you could just tell them you don't remember. It's rarely rude. It's better to be human. We all forget stuff all the time. If we stopped imagining that everyone else is holding everyone else to impossible levels of "quality" we'd all be much better off. Just admit you don't remember their name. If you feel really bad about it, work in a little story about what you do remember about them. If you don't remember anything, then the meeting wasn't important to you so just let it go. If it was somehow important to them, there'll be a way to resolve this. Or there won't and you'll have a lost a friend but all of that is better than hiding your humanity behind a robot.
Perhaps we need to issue a new "Turning Test". Can a human tell the difference between a human and a human with machine assistance? And does it matter?
I've decided that I must be atypical around name recall for some reason or another. I often do ask, because as you said it is human to forget, but I find myself forgetting like 3 times in the course of a conversation sometimes, I could really use a machine of this sort.
This of course assumes a non-scalable offline system. Obviously something online like China’s social credit system is more of a breach.
I don’t want to help either of those initiatives, so for now I’m strictly anti facial recognition, even for benign use cases at the micro level.
I don’t mind an individual knowing this information, but I’d rather that individual not hand that data over to a megacorp that has a million other unknown uses for it.
A good example is me refusing to share my photo with my friends for that app which turns you into an old guy. Another friend just out of spite shared a personal photo he has of me. Now my photo is in this Russian database which does data mining.
For better privacy, you being careful is not enough. You need to make sure everyone around you are privacy oriented. And we need to make systems that make that happen. Opt in privacy is not effective.
I assume this is less of a genetic problem, but related to having undiagnosed myopia as a child when perhaps facial recognition pathways are in a critical development stage.
Yeah, when it first launched I thought "this is what facial recognition is for," completely oblivious to the privacy concerns.
In a world where privacy wasn't exploited:
A photo album that automatically finds you in other people's photos is really awesome. Imagine you went to a concert and your phone died, there would likely be dozens of photos with you in the frame. You could likely amass a treasure trove of unexpected perspectives of your memories, from complete strangers.
Fun ideas that are completely incompatible with reality...
There's a lot of useful stuff you can do when people stop abusing that stuff.
Privacy is also a nice thing.
The fact that it is pumped around from service to service is what causes the problems.