An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Travelers in the EU

Re:An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Traveler... by coldtea on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:21AM (#18361397)

No, I'm saying people selling something as "AI" doesn't mean:

a) it'll work,

b) it's actually any sort of AI,

and that, for example, even reputable companies like IBM can peddle all kind of shit as AI.

So, IBM was used as an example of a common practice, not as some logical axiom that "because they did it, nothing AI will ever work". Example != logical necessity.

It does, however cast doubt, especially for such a thorny problem as "lie detection", that nobody has, thus far, solved.

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Re:An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Traveler... by darawk on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:00PM (#18364011)

Well, let's back up. Lie detection is not completely unsolved. Polygraphs are used extensively by security services for clearance screening. They are reasonably good barometers of truth telling. They are not good enough to be admissible in court, but that doesn't mean they have no correlation to the truth.

Even if all this "AI" does is match the quality of a polygraph, it is probably extremely useful in screening people rapidly at the border.

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