Artificial Intelligence and Carl (Charlie) Webb.
AI has been in the news for a while, like blotting paper it has absorbed a million facts on a million subjects and can create beautifully crafted answers from this reservoir of stolen knowledge to answer obscure questions that have enabled many to pass tests and exams .. plagiarism is dead and teachers cannot keep up. Newspapers don’t know who to believe. We are being subjected to a confected knowledge that has no human authenticity.
But can AI provide an answer to this question?
Could this man ..
Grow into this man?
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The Somerton Man .. 
I know this is a silly question,could he possibly had plastic surgery?
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Peter, I have a significant problem with the current use of AI in that it no way proves to be ACCURATE or FACTUAL! It currently can only be taken as a consensus of opinions, no matter what information a result may have or lack. I was just going to follow this conversation till about 5 minutes ago when I received a suggested update on SM from an AI driven browser. WOW! Have I been MIA or was this AI result rubbish? RUBBISH! RUBBISH! AI RUBBISH! AI is RUBBISH at the moment.
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Yes this. Current “AI” (side rant don’t talk to me about Artificial Intelligence until we can agree on what defines Intelligence – Natural Stupidity is easy, we see it everywhere, but….) literally just parrots back what it found somewhere else and tries to put it in a vaguely coherent sentence. I have seen it say things that are quite demonstrably wrong (I forget the exact context, but it was literally something like “A is 42 and B is 40, therefore B is the greater number”.
Face matching is a little problematic too – when organisations like Border Security Agencies use it, they take video of a face and work out the biometrics based on multiple stills (fun fact, chewing gum while you’re being processed greatly increases the likelihood of the system matching you – or used to (things have probably evolved somewhat)). The problem with matching 2 stills (especially of different ages) is that while the biometrics they use measure theoretically predictable ratios of facial features, different angles on photos can make it difficult to reliable measure the markers you need. So Border Security has the advantage not only of being able to compare to multiple pictures, but also being able to control (to some degree) where faces they are analysing are facing – partly because they herd the crowds through specific points, and partly because they literally have a screen saying “look here”. This means they get a somewhat sanitized matching experience.
Even if we look at “face in the crowd” technologies – although it’s more difficult (read: neat impossible) to control where people are looking, you generally have a lot (from a computing perspecitve) of pictures to be able to choose from and try to build up a virtual 3D model.
And that’s without considering that the Charlie pic is a bit blurry, and (from memory) most agree the SM pic has been modified (at the very least to make it not look to ghoulish for the public).
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Of course
It’s human metamorphosis
Just like caterpillars turn into beautiful butterflies
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AH .. I have the same problem, AI is a new form of propaganda, the bigger the lie the more who will believe it, unless they do background tests and who does that these days?
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