Facial
recognition technology will change the way we live
I
Study the active vocabulary and focus on Ukrainian equivalents of English
words.
mainstream – головна
течія
bank account –
банківський рахунок
recognition –
розпізнавання
covertly –
таємно
track –
стежити
freedom – свобода
sexuality –
сексуальна орієнтація
astonishing –
вражаючий
feature – риса
flow – потік
intentional – навмисний
unintentional – ненавмисний
landmark – поворотний пункт
print –
відбиток
at the forefront –
в перших рядах
measure –
вимірювати
width – ширина
accuracy –
правильність
controlled environment – контрольовані умови (експерименту)
precision –
точність
surveillance –
спостереження
retail chain store –
магазин роздрібної торгівлі
church – церква
advert – оголошення
attendance –
відвідуваність
keep tabs on – відстежувати
watch-list – список підозрюваних
ahead of the game –
попереду
harbinger – провісник
database – база даних
warrant – ордер
theme park – парк розваг
bizarrely – дивно
loo –
(розм.) туалет
researcher –
дослідник
straight – гетеросексуальний
authoritarian – авторитарний
advantage –
перевага
issue – спірне питання
II Vocabulary
focus. Study the words and word combinations, check your understanding
using flashcards, practise
their translation, spelling. Check
your knowledge in the test. Play matching
vocabulary game (match words to their
translations to make cards disappear) and save the planet from asteroids by typing in correct translation of the words.
III
Watch the video and fill in the gaps with the words from the list. There are
some words you don’t need to use.
In 2018 1)_______ that can read your face will
go 2)_______, changing the way we 3)_______. Your face will become your 4)_______, unlocking 5)_______ and bank accounts.
- “Face 6)_______ 2018 will change our lives.”
But the technology
will also have the power to 7)_______
track your 8)_______.
-
“Moving into a world where machines can
follow you around and 9)_______ you
based only on your face is 10)_______
because it potentially 11)_______ your
12)_______.”
It will even be able to 13)_______ your sexuality through facial 14)_______ alone. In 2018 we’ll be forced to 15)_______ the future.
The human face has an
16)_______ variety of features, which
not only help us 17)_______ others
but read and 18)_______ them through
a 19)_______ flow of intentional and 20)_______ signals. It’s one of the 21)_______ functions that 22)_______ man from machine, 23)_______ now. “2018 is going to be a 24)_______ year for face recognition
because there has been a huge amount of 25)_______
in the 26)_______ technology known 27)_______ learning and what that allows
you to do is pull a very 28)_______ faceprint
out of a photograph that uniquely 29)_______
a person.”
IV
Watch the video again and choose the correct
option to complete the sentences.
Pioneering facial/face/pace recognition techniques /technologist /technology hasn’t yet hit the
mainstream. In 2018 it will be in our lockers/arm/pockets.
“Facial recognition
is going to go mainstream in 2018 basic/largely/mainstream because the latest
iPhone has face-recognition technology building/inbuilt/built into it.”
“You look at it, and
it recognizes you.”
“By next year
there’ll be millions of those apps/programs/devices out in the world and they’re
gonna get used to/used to/be used to
unlocking our drone/clone/phone then we’re gonna start getting
used to getting into our banking apps/maps/caps with face recognition and it’s gonna start feeling abnormal/habit/normal.”
But using your face
to unlock your phone is just the starting/beginning/news. In the outskirt/suburbs/central of Israel’s financial centre Tel Aviv a team of developer/engineers/programmer is at the storefront/forefront/foreground of a technological
revolving/ illusion/ revolution.
“We have invented a
simple way of transforming/informing/performing
a photo into codex/detox/text.”
They’re teaching/studying/learning machines to
read faces.
“The face recognition
model can treasure/pleasure/measure the distance between your eyes,
the width of your lips/loops/scoops,
the distance from your lips to dose/nose/chose, etc. At the end of that
process we are left with a simply/basis/simple text, which is the basis/foundations/basic of our
recognition.”
The hardware/malware/software has the power to identify one face from millions in under
one second.
“Our accurate/literacy/accuracy under a controlled mental/
environment/ environmental is around
99 per cent.”
And it’s this decision/precision/transition that makes the technology an effective new tool/cool/pool for survival/surveillance/annoyance.
“We can identify
people without them knowing that they are being profiled/filed/identified.
We have clients ranging from radical/medical /healthy centres, retail porcelain/chain/cane stores, churches …”
Retail stores are
using this technology to generate data on consumer’s/client’s/customers tracking their shopping habitats/addicts/habits and targeting in-store inverts/adverts/coverts.
Porches/Churches/Chores are even using facial recognition to monitor attendant/attendance/surveillance. And one pool/cool/school in the
UK wants to use it to keep tabs on teaching/student/teachers.
“We have one school
where teachers took too-long leaks/breaks/break-ups therefore the managerial/managed/management decided to put them on the wish list/waiting mode/watch-list.”
V
Watch the video and fill in the gaps in the text.
But there’s one 1)_______
that’s 2)_______ of the game.
“China is a 3)_______
of the future for this 4)_______ of technology.”
Companies have 5)_______
to a government image 6)_______ of 700 million people; half its 7)_______.
“China is already
using this widely in 8)_______, looking for 9)_______ or people who have
warrants out for their 10)_______. But they’re also using it to let people pay
in 11)_______ restaurants, to access 12)____
___ without having to buy a 13)_______ and even, bizarrely, to try and
catch people who steal loo 14)_______ from public 15)_______.
But there’s the
potential for more 16)_______ applications. 17)_______ have shown that your 18)_______
can point to your sexuality.
“It’s not gonna mean
you can take a photo of someone and get a yes or no, gay or 19)_______. But
what it does mean is that if a bad actor or an 20)___ ____ gathers say 10,000 pictures and asks which of
the 10 people are most likely to be gay they’re quite likely to get many of
those 21)_______.”
This new ability to 22)_______,
store, and analyse images of faces on a vast scale will 23)_______ change
notions of privacy, 24)_______, and trust.
“In 2018 the most
contact that people will have with face recognition they won’t 25)_______ know 26)_______.
It’ll be through 27)_______ services, it’ll be through shops that are 28)_______
you and that’s with the more 29)_______ side of it.”
But tech companies
are 30)_______ ahead with their plans to make facial recognition and 31)_______
part of our lives.
“You cannot stop
progress over the 32)_______ of privacy. The advantages of security of business
information are far 33)_______ than some privacy 34)_______.”
“This technology is a
new kind of power and the only way we have of 35)_______ with technologies
currently is to make 36)_______ that 37)_______ bad uses and allow for the
perceived good uses. 2018 will be a year or we start to 38)___ ____ what some of those are.”
VI Watch all the parts of the video and
answer the questions.
1.What is facial recognition and how does this
technology work? What is machine learning and how is it connected to facial
recognition?
2.Where can people find this technology in everyday
life?
3.What will future uses of this technology include
for ordinary people?
4.What country (countries) is (are) already using this
technology? What are they using it for? How was such a wide use of this
technology made possible?
5. What are the more unusual ways of using facial
recognition technology?
6. What has the Israeli team of engineers been
working on? What results have they achieved? How do they recognise faces?
7. What information can facial recognition provide
about a person?
8. Has the Israeli team of engineers tested their
face recognition system in the streets of the cities? What were their results?
9. How can face recognition be used in security?
10. How do retail stores, churches, and schools use
facial recognition systems?
11. Do people know that they are being identified by
a facial recognition app? If yes, what problems does it create?
12. What are the dangers of facial recognition
usage? How can these dangers be avoided? What has already been done to protect
citizens?
VII Look at the quotations from the video. What did
the speaker mean? Do you agree with the speakers’ ideas? Why or why not?
a) “In 2018 we’ll be forced to face the
future.”
b) “You cannot stop progress over the fear of
privacy. The advantages of security of business information are far greater
than some privacy issues.”
VIII
Watch the video and read the text above. Say if the statements below are true
or false. Correct the false statements.
1. In 2018 face
recognition will be used to buy things, unlock smartphones, drive cars, and access bank
accounts.
2. Face recognition can
be used to secretly track people’s movements.
3. Facial recognition
identifies people based on their facial features, height, weight, and hair
colour.
4. Facial recognition
makes privacy and freedom stronger.
5. People recognise
each another by way of identifying facial features.
6. Machines learnt to
recognise intentional and unintentional signals on human faces many years ago.
7. Facial recognition
allows creating an accurate faceprint.
8. iPhone face
recognition technology is at the forefront of the research.
9. Soon facial
recognition will no longer feel strange or unusual.
10. Engineers today are
able to convert photos into video and identify people.
11. Shops can use
facial recognition to put clients who take long time to choose the purchase on
the watch-list.
12. Israel is already
using face recognition to allow people to buy flowers from fast food restaurants.
13. With facial
recognition system there will be no need to buy a ticket to access theme parks.
14. Chinese companies
have access to the database of photos of all the population collected by the
churches.
15.Chinese companies
can take photos of people in public toilets to create a database of faces.
16. Facial recognition
system needs training on a vast amount of photos.
17. It is clear now
that there will be no dangers in using facial recognition.
18. Facial recognition
can help catch criminals and identify terrorists.
19. Not security
services, but organizations like retail stores and churches will be the biggest
danger to people’s privacy as soon as they start using facial recognition.
20. There are laws that
will protect citizens against authoritarian usage of facial recognition
technology.
IX OVER TO YOU. What is
your idea of the usage of facial recognition in future? Get ready to discuss its
possible advantages and disadvantages for your country and you as a person. Explain
what the life would be like with wide use of facial recognition technology and
what problems it would help to deal with or create; use second conditional to
express your ideas.
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