Your Face is your ticket ✈️

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In today’s update:

📰 News: Biometric identification at US Airports.

🛠️ Tools: Javascript library to build ChatGPT apps.

🧠 Learn: The rise of AI engineer.

🎲 Misc: AI software is eating the software industry

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Facial recognition coming at US airports

TSA security checkpoints are about to get automated soon with expansion of facial recognition program to over 430 airports in the US over next couple of years.

The facial recognition program works by comparing your face with image on your identification document, with TSA reporting over 97% accuracy across varying skin tones.

Also, TSA doesn’t retain your biometric data and is overwritten as soon as next passenger steps up to the queue.

Why it matters: Although convenient (and faster), people usually don’t have an option to “opt out” of facial recognition programs. But a more worrying trend is private corporations adopting biometric identification for access control.

Sports stadiums are marketing “mandatory” facial recognition as “Your face is your ticket”! Madison Square Garden in NYC is already using it to deny entry to certain people - Here’s a list of 20 more venues using biometrics.

If you combine cameras with AI-powered facial recognition algorithms, you could easily track thousands of people in real time, often without consent.

New Tools
Leverage AI to grow

• Build ChatGPT apps: ChatGPT.js is a powerful JavaScript library that allows for super easy interaction w/ the ChatGPT DOM.(link)

• Personalized stories for kids: Bedtime stories don’t have to be repeated. Talebot lets you customize characters, develop new story lines, and create your bedtime story in minutes. (link)

• Simplify SEO Research: SEOdity is an all-in-one SEO tool with a powerful domain analysis tool, streamlining your SEO workflow, automated reports and even AI content creation! (link)

Learn

• Good read: The rise of AI engineer (link)

Misc
From the corners of the Internet

• AI is eating the software industry! Take a deeper look at how companies are using generative AI tools to save money on programmers - Wall Street Journal

• Spotify is planning to add full-length music videos in app, escalating competition with YouTube - Bloomberg

• Apple becomes the first publicly traded company to close with a $3T market cap; the company first hit a $3T market cap during intraday trading in January 2022 - CNBC

• People are using “Phone Bots” that use AI-generated voices to fight back telemarketers - Wall Street Journal

• Voice.ai raises $6M as its real-time voice changer approaches 500K users - Techcrunch

• How AI is transforming the luxury real estate business right now - Inman