Courtesy of Alibaba, all you now need to get a chicken burger in one Chinese branch of KFC is a smile. The restaurant has adopted facial recognition technology that allows diners to pay with their face.
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Facial recognition lets diners pay for meal with a smile at Chinese KFC
The founder of the technology giant Alibaba, the billionaire Jack Ma, boasted two years ago that his company would soon launch “smile-to-pay” systems, and now in the KFC close to the company’s Hangzhou headquarters, customers can leave their loose change and credit cards at home. They simply smile at a scanner and click “confirm” on a keypad. Payment is then taken from a cash account which is unlocked when a person’s image matches a previously stored photo.
