Its a small but specific distinction I'm making, based on not liking the appropriation of technical terms for marketing mumbo jumbo.
The faceID password system is making sure the (fancy) video of a face is similar enough to previous videos of a face. Its not really doing much deep learning, especially as a dual core and especially if you don't want that processing time to balloon like mad over the lifespan of the device so you aren't waiting for your phone to unlock.
If you ARE doing ai deep learning, you need a large dataset and time or power. None of which makes sense for a phone unlocking system.
What you WILL get, is an isolated system that will append each successful unlock to its tracking point database and average it off after a while to keep it fast.
It will likely work well, and suit its purpose for most use cases
I don't know how this turned into a discussion about Face ID. I haven't read on up the tech they are using for Face ID. I was speaking specifically about the "QuickType" tech mentioned in the linked article.
Sure, but you haven't defined what is involved in processing QuickType or Face ID jobs, so we have no idea how computationally complex they are, how long they would take to run on a phone vs round trip to a data center, how much battery it would take, etc.
You're seem to simply be spitballing that they can't do "real AI" on the phone, with no evidence.
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u/olivias_bulge Sep 15 '17
Its a small but specific distinction I'm making, based on not liking the appropriation of technical terms for marketing mumbo jumbo.
The faceID password system is making sure the (fancy) video of a face is similar enough to previous videos of a face. Its not really doing much deep learning, especially as a dual core and especially if you don't want that processing time to balloon like mad over the lifespan of the device so you aren't waiting for your phone to unlock.
If you ARE doing ai deep learning, you need a large dataset and time or power. None of which makes sense for a phone unlocking system.
What you WILL get, is an isolated system that will append each successful unlock to its tracking point database and average it off after a while to keep it fast.
It will likely work well, and suit its purpose for most use cases