Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Our fingerprints may not be unique, claims AI
The stripe patterns on zebras are believed to be unique to each individual.
The specific arrangement and pattern of these strips can vary between
individuals, which helps them recognize each other within a herd. Then how
about our fingerprints? They are formed before birth and thought to be unique
to each individual like zebra’s stripe patterns. However, a new study by a US
university that trained an AI tool to examine 60,000 fingerprints identified
only with 75%-90% accuracy. The researchers aren’t sure how the AI they trained
did it. To your surprise, we know that no two individuals have demonstrated the
same fingerprints but we aren’t sure that fingerprints are unique to each individual.
Interestingly, a grandmother in England said her identical twin granddaughters
can open each other’s iPhones with their fingers. These could pose a question to
the validity of using fingerprints as identification in forensics science and security.
More studies are needed to find if we can rely on fingerprints to identify
individuals.
Read the article and learn if fingerprints are really unique to individuals.
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