This AI Predicts How Old Children Are. Can It Keep Them Safe?
Now London-based digital identity company Yotibelieves its AI-powered age estimation can predict how old someone is if they’re aged anywhere from 6 to 60. For the first time, it claims, it can accurately determine whether children are under or over 13, the minimum age many social media firms require their users to be. ...
Yoti says its age estimation technology, which it has developed over the past three years, has a margin of error of 2.79 years across its total 45-year age range. For under 25s the margin of error drops below 1.5 years.
...The company itself is unsure what facial features its AI uses to determine people’s age. “We have to be honest,” Tombs says, “we don't really know whether it's to do with wrinkles or saggy eyes or quite what. It has just done so many that it is now very good at it.” ...
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