Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and Guns Using Basic Wifi

Re:Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and G... by nixpulvis on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:57PM (#17777965)

Can't wait to see the day police show up at peoples houses because an opaque AI/ML/Statistical-thingy said they were creating bombs, when in fact it was a loaf of bread (or whatever). Minority report gets more and more real.

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Re:Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and G... by astrodust on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:53PM (#17778319)

99% accuracy sounds impressive until you realize this thing will flag 1% of all objects as potentially threatening.

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Re:Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and G... by sigfubar on Thursday August 16, 2018 @06:28PM (#17778934)

And of course it'll entirely miss the 2,600 rounds of ammo in my apartment.

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Re:Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and G... by astrodust on Friday August 17, 2018 @04:37PM (#17785466)

And the box of tannerite, and the separate containers of powdered iron and aluminum...

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