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"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest
of them all?" An old tale tells a seemingly unbelievable
story of a magic mirror, but now the magic is no longer unachievable.
In August 2018, news went widely-spread that the police had caught
criminal suspects (嫌疑人) who attended Chinese singer Jacky Cheung's concerts.
How did the police pick out the suspects among thousands of screaming fans? The helping hand is AI facial recognition technology.
The low-key (低调的) but powerful tool is no longer far-fetched, but
entering the world of China's top investors and companies.
Facial recognition is a technology able to recognize
a person from a digital image or a figure from a video source. Tang Wenbin, CTO
of Face, an AI computer vision technology company in China, vividly explained the
workflow (流程). According to him, facial recognition is the
identification (身份证明)of our appearance, including knowing the sex,
age and identity of a person. You may think it is like a brain or a neural network.
You use data to train it, and then, it learns the pattern.
Facial recognition technology has been traditionally
related to the security work but today it is widely used in other industries including
mobile phones, marketing and finance. Chinese start-ups have seen the power of AI
facial recognition for simplifying and speeding up tasks in many industries. And
the market is now crowded and competitive.
China is starting the AI revolution and has made
breakthrough in facial recognition. "If the use of AI in different industries
is a marathon, the companies there probably have just got off the blocks, "
said Tian Feng, director of Alibaba Cloud Research Center. He also thinks that in
the future, everybody will be able to use AI as it will soon become a basic tool
for work and life.
(1)
Why is the news mentioned in paragraph 2?
A . To introduce a new tool for companies.
B . To describe the background of facial recognition.
C . To prove old tales are based on true stories.
D . To show the magic has become a reality.
(2)
What do Tian Feng's words imply?
A . Many companies in China are researching AI.
B . The use of AI technology now has a long way to go.
C . AI plays a key role in companies' development.
D . AI technology will be used in marathons one day.
(3)
What can be a suitable title for the text?
A . The eye of AI in China
B . Effects of AI technology
C . Breakthrough of Chinese technology
D . Facial recognition in security
答案: D
B
A