Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it would stop selling technology that analyzes people’s emotions. Based on facial images and It no longer provides unrestricted access to face recognition tools.

for years, Activists and academics Concerned that facial analysis software that claims to be able to identify a person’s age, gender and emotional state may Be biased, unreliable or invasive and should not be sold.

The decision reflects Microsoft’s efforts to more closely control its artificial intelligence products; At a time when lawmakers in the United States and Europe are finding themselves balancing legal restrictions.

After one In a two-year review, the Microsoft team developed the “Responsible Artificial Intelligence Standard.” Consists of a 27-page document that sets out requirements to ensure that artificial intelligence does not have a detrimental impact on society.

Requirements include Ensure that systems provide “the right solutions to the problems they intend to solve” And one Similar quality of service for identified demographic groups, “Including marginalized groups,” it said Ნ New York Times.

“These efforts have raised important questions Confidentiality, lack of consensus on the definition of “emotions” and the inability to generalize the relationship between facial expressions and emotional state. “By all uses, by region and demographics,” said Sarah Bird, product manager at Microsoft’s Azure AI division.

Customers will have one year before they lose access Artificial intelligence tools that claim to bring out emotions, gender, age, smile, facial hair, hair and makeup.

Alphabet’s Google Cloud launched a similar assessment last year. As a result, Google has blocked 13 expected reactions to the emotion reading tool and is considering four things like joy and melancholy. The company is evaluating a new system that analyzes movements such as frowning and smiling without associating them with emotions.

That’s what Microsoft said Users must now obtain consent to use the face recognition service, Allowing people to log on to websites or open folders using facial scanning.

The company asked its customers Avoid situations that violate privacy or in which technology can cause problemsSuch as the identification of minors, but does not explicitly prohibit such use.

Last week, Microsoft announced that it was going to shut down Internet Explorer, its web browser, and finally, it did. 27 years on computer screens around the world.

Microsoft Announced the departure last year, explaining in a blog post on Wednesday that this was due to the need to start from scratch with another browser: Microsoft Margin.

“Internet Explorer (IE) has been officially removed, it is no longer supported”write Microsoft.

(According to Reuters)

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