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AI discovers that not every fingerprint is unique (techxplore.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Columbia Engineering senior Aniv Ray and Ph.D. student Judah Goldfeder, who helped analyze the data, noted that their results are just the beginning. "Just imagine how well this will perform once it's trained on millions instead of thousands of fingerprints," said Ray.

Or we're going to find out fingerprint analysis was junk science, just like hair analysis.

We'll still use it to convict people though.

[–] WeeSheep 5 points 10 months ago

There has been no science to back up fingerprints being unique enough to determine identity by. I'm not sure "going to find out" is quite the same as "has never been proven to be true."

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