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AI researchers find our fingerprints may not be unique


A Columbia University team has trained AI to examine thousands of fingerprints and the tool has found that our details may not be unique

A team of scientists have trained artificial intelligence (AI) to examine thousands of fingerprints and in response, the tool has found that our details may not be unique, as reported by BBC News. Professor Hod Lipson, a Roboticist at Columbia commented on the intrigue: “It is clear that it isn’t using traditional markers that forensics have been using for decades. Graham Williams, professor of forensic science at Hull University told the BBC that unique fingerprints had never been a definite matter.

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