{"id":180481,"date":"2024-01-14T13:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T19:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ai-study-claims-human-fingerprints-arent-actually-unique"},"modified":"2024-01-14T13:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T19:23:30","slug":"ai-study-claims-human-fingerprints-arent-actually-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ai-study-claims-human-fingerprints-arent-actually-unique","title":{"rendered":"AI Study Claims Human Fingerprints Aren\u2019t Actually Unique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-study-claims-human-fingerprints-arent-actually-unique2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that, according to the researchers, is exactly what the AI did, identifying whether prints from different types of fingers came from the same person with 75 to 90 percent accuracy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-67944537\" class=\"\"><em>BBC<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that it isn\u2019t using traditional markers that forensics have been using for decades,\u201d study co-author Hod Lipson, a roboticist at Columbia University, told the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers trained their AI model on a database of 60,000 fingerprints. Lead author Gabe Guo, a senior undergrad at Columbia University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/12\/world\/fingerprints-ai-based-study-scn\/index.html\" class=\"\">told <i>CNN<\/i><\/a> that the AI was able to look beyond finger features known as \u201cminutiae\u201d that detectives have relied on for centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that, according to the researchers, is exactly what the AI did, identifying whether prints from different types of fingers came from the same person with 75 to 90 percent accuracy, the BBC reported. \u201cIt is clear that it isn\u2019t using traditional markers that forensics have been using for decades,\u201d study co-author Hod Lipson, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180481","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}