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Muddy waters. What if (when) they fire a false positive?

• DanBC 14y ago
  Well, they'd be saying "This photo looks like the person in the photo you provided". At the moment police are relying on people saying "I saw some bloke that looked like that photo at this location", so there's not much difference.
  • rhizome 14y ago
    Humans are much, much better at pattern matching than computers, they just don't scale.
    • DanBC 14y ago
      I have the impression that people are notoriously bad at recognising faces. You can show a person a photo, and then show them a "6 pack" and they can't find the person in the original photo. And many other examples. I'll try to find some cites to see if I've remembered correctly (and if the studies were any good).
      • rhizome 14y ago
        How about a picture of twins?
• jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
  Obviously you would send both pictures to the police with the name and info of the matched suspect so there would be human confirmation.