[Tyler]

Terrorist or pedophile? This start-up says it can out secrets by analyzing faces
24 May 2016, 12:00 am

                    An Israeli start-up says it can take one look at a person's face and realize character traits that are undetectable to the human eye. Faception said it's already signed a contract with a homeland security agency to help identify terrorists.

Washington Post - Technology NewsLink

Source: AI in the News

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[squarebear]

Judging if someone is a criminal purely on the way they look?! Wow! I thought those days had died out last century.

[Freddy]

Raised my eyebrow too. Sounds like pseudo-science to me.

Witch hunt anyone ?

[Art]

Agreed except now it's those know-it-all computers instead of those offensive, know-it-all humans preaching that drivel!

[Don Patrick]

They actually believe that terrorism is in people's DNA and claim that they know human nature better than anyone else. According to my language analysis software, these people are insane.

On a lighter note, it mentions a pretty nice example of neural networks:

trained a computer system to tell the difference between dogs and wolves. Tests proved the system was almost 100 percent accurate. But it turned out the computer was successful because it learned to look for snow in the background of the photos. All of the wolf photos were taken in the snow, whereas the dog pictures weren’t.

[squarebear]

Haha! I love the wolves/dogs thing.

[Art]

That's know as accuracy to a fault.