This was one of our certainties: fingerprints are unique. But that was before the arrival of artificial intelligence. The reality would actually be a little more complex. This is the subject of the “not so stupid question”, the podcast meeting of the evening edition.
NCIS, Criminal minds, Cold Case … We all have the image of an investigator taking fingerprints at a crime scene.
And whether on television or in real life, fingerprints are essential, for a very simple reason: they are unique. Not only to each person, but to each of their fingers, including their feet.
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Our fingerprints would have the same “signature”
Well, that’s what we thought, before artificial intelligence once again shook up our certainties. Thanks to her,A team of students from Columbia University has developed a tool capable of determining whether or not the prints of different fingers on a hand belong to the same person. In their study, published in the scientific journal Science Advances, they reveal that the prints of the same person would have a form of “signature”.
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If they admit that their study still needs to be in-depth, this discovery could well revolutionize biometrics.
