Canon deploys AI Cameras that only admit smiling workers

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In an effort to cut their sad-sack workforce by 90%, Canon deploys AI Door Cameras that only let smiling workers inside offices.

Canon Uses AI Cameras That Only Let Smiling Workers Inside Offices
petapixel.com | 2021/06/17
...“In addition, based on the corporate culture of ‘moving and always being’, Canon has always advocated the concepts of ‘laughing’ and ‘big health’, and hopes to bring happiness and health to everyone in the post-epidemic era,” Canon wrote in a press release. “Therefore, in the […] intelligent IT solution, a new experience of smile recognition is specially incorporated. It is hoped that smiles can let everyone relax and get healthy, so as to create a more pleasant working atmosphere and improve efficiency.”
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...the China-based Canon subsidiary Canon Information Technology introduced an "intelligent IT solution" for corporate offices that includes 5 different functional modules, one of which is "smiley face access control.