Our fingerprints may not be unique, claims AI

Dermot7 · Jan 11, 2024

There is a belief that each fingerprint on one person's hand is completely unique but that is now being challenged by research from Columbia University.

A team at the US university trained an AI tool to examine 60,000 fingerprints to see if it could work out which ones belonged to the same individual.

The researchers claim the technology could identify, with 75-90% accuracy, whether prints from different fingers came from one person.

But they are not sure how it works.

"We don't know for sure how the AI does it," admitted Prof Hod Lipson, a roboticist at Columbia University who supervised the study.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67944537

xxJackxx · Jan 18, 2024

It's believable that not all individual ones are unique, but I expect that all complete sets are.

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