Verrebbe da dire che è fuffa, anche se Cortica non è nata ieri.
Comunque evidenzia la pericolosa tendenza alla convergenza tra
tecnologie biometriche.
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/01/31/1044576/corsight-face-recognition-from-dna/>
A police officer is at the scene of a murder. No witnesses. No camera
footage. No obvious suspects or motives. Just a bit of hair on the
sleeve of the victim’s jacket. DNA from the cells of one strand is
copied and compared against a database. No match comes back, and the
case goes cold.
Corsight AI, a facial recognition subsidiary of the Israeli AI company
Cortica, purports to be devising a solution for that sort of situation
by using DNA to create a model of a face that can then be run through a
facial recognition system. It is a task that experts in the field regard
as scientifically untenable.
Corsight unveiled its “DNA to Face” product in a presentation by chief
executive officer Robert Watts and executive vice president Ofer Ronen
intended to court financiers at the Imperial Capital Investors
Conference in New York City on December 15. It was part of the company’s
overall product road map, which also included movement and voice
recognition. The tool “constructs a physical profile by analyzing
genetic material collected in a DNA sample,” according to a company
slide deck viewed by surveillance research group IPVM and shared with
MIT Technology Review.
A photo of Corsight's investor presentation showing its product roadmap
that features "voice to face", "DNA to face" and "movement" as an
expansion of its face recognition capabilities.
Corsight declined a request to answer questions about the presentation
and its product road map. “We are not engaging with the press at the
moment as the details of what we are doing are company confidential,”
Watts wrote in an email.
But marketing materials show that the company is focused on government
and law enforcement applications for its technology. Its advisory board
consists only of James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA, and Oliver
Revell, a former assistant director of the FBI.
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