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An Israeli start-up says it can take one look at a persons face and realize character traits that are undetectable to the human eye.
Faception said its already signed a contract with a homeland security agency to help identify terrorists. The company said its technology also can be used to identify everything from great poker players to extroverts, pedophiles, geniuses and white collar-criminals.
We understand the human much better than other humans understand each other, said Faception chief executive Shai Gilboa. Our personality is determined by our DNA and reflected in our face. Its a kind of signal.
Faception has built 15 different classifiers, which Gilboa said evaluate with 80 percent accuracy certain traits. The start-up is pushing forward, seeing tremendous power in a machines ability to analyze images.
Yet experts caution there are ethical questions and profound limits to the effectiveness of technology such as this.
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)intrepidity
(7,380 posts)Skittles
(153,311 posts)where the world is headed, it's already someplace I do not want to be
arcane1
(38,613 posts)This idea is as stupid and as likely misused as the "bomb detector" scam:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/fake-bomb-detectors-iraq
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)imagine, cops yanking people off the streets, well, the reading said they were one.
Warpy
(111,467 posts)A study of microexpressions can reveal a lot but that can't be done by a computer in the time it takes for someone to walk past a camera.
Sorry guys.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)Shifty eyes+bomb=terrorist
Shifty eyes+ice cream truck with no ice cream=pedophile
You're welcome.
-JB
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Doesn't work
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)...that could examine a person by the shape of their skull, or bumps on their head, or some damn thing?
Chan790
(20,176 posts)It's psuedo-science. It doesn't work...but I figure you already suspected that. It was also instrumental in the rise of eugenics and ultimately very-influential on the bullshit "sociologists" (as differentiated from actual practitioners of sociology) that inspired the thinking of Goebbels and Hitler.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts).....don't cops use 'you looked nervous' as probable cause for a road-side beat-down?
Isn't that of similar validity to the OP?
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)One wart or two.
skip fox
(19,360 posts)Britain outlawed physiognomy as a means of telling fortunes centuries ago!!!
MisterP
(23,730 posts)wait, what?
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