{"id":180237,"date":"2024-01-10T19:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T01:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ai-discovers-that-not-every-fingerprint-is-unique"},"modified":"2024-01-10T19:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T01:50:49","slug":"ai-discovers-that-not-every-fingerprint-is-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ai-discovers-that-not-every-fingerprint-is-unique","title":{"rendered":"AI discovers that not every fingerprint is unique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s5esfRbBc18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a well-accepted fact in the forensics community that fingerprints of different fingers of the same person\u2014 intra-person fingerprints\u2014are unique and, therefore, unmatchable.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Columbia Engineering undergraduate senior Gabe Guo challenged this widely held presumption. Guo, who had no prior knowledge of forensics, found a public U.S. government database of some 60,000 fingerprints and fed them in pairs into an artificial intelligence-based system known as a deep contrastive network. Sometimes the pairs belonged to the same person (but different fingers), and sometimes they belonged to different people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a well-accepted fact in the forensics community that fingerprints of different fingers of the same person\u2014 intra-person fingerprints\u2014are unique and, therefore, unmatchable. A team led by Columbia Engineering undergraduate senior Gabe Guo challenged this widely held presumption. Guo, who had no prior knowledge of forensics, found a public U.S. government database of some 60,000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}