In today’s day and age people rely heavily on cab aggregators for short-distance and long-distance travelling purposes. These cab applications use Artificial Intelligence and online technology for its functioning which oftentimes paves way for error.
Srikanth, a Hyderabad-based Uber driver, was recently on the receiving end of the shortcomings of Artificial Intelligence.
A few weeks ago, Srikanth had shaved off his hair to offer them to the deity at Tirumala Tirupati Devasthana, reported News18. Later, when Srikanth tried to log into Uber’s internal portal for its network of drivers, he was unable to re-register himself.
This was because the app’s software failed to recognise Sirkanth’s new look with his shaved head. Clicking selfies from various angles, he tried logging into the portal at least four times, but to no avail, as he was ultimately banned by the facial recognition software for ‘multiple logging attempts’.
It has been over a month to this…