ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: After adopting it for internal security use, the telecom firm’s biometric technology is now being tested by several companies in Taiwan

Taipei Times
Date: May 22, 2019
By: Lisa Wang  /  Staff reporter

Chunghwa Telecom Co (CHT, 中華電信) yesterday said it plans to commercialize its facial recognition technology this year as it considers artificial intelligence (AI)-related technologies crucial to its transformation into a technology provider.

After adopting it for internal use, the technology is now being tested at several select companies in Taiwan, the nation’s biggest telecom said.

“AI plays a crucial role in our strategic transformation. It will bring quick wins,” Chunghwa Telecom chairman Sheih Chi-mau (謝繼茂) told a media briefing.

The company’s facial recognition technology is primarily used for security control and has been deployed in the company’s Internet data centers’ entrance systems to identify clients, Sheih said.    [FULL  STORY]