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AI-Powered Body Scanners Could Soon Speed Up Your Airport Check-in (theguardian.com)

Posted by msmash on from the no-waiting-lines dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report on the Guardian:A startup bankrolled by Bill Gates is about to conduct the first public trials of high-speed body scanners powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the Guardian can reveal. According to documents filed with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Boston-based Evolv Technology is planning to test its system at Union Station in Washington DC, in Los Angeles's Union Station metro and at Denver international airport. Evolv uses the same millimetre-wave radio frequencies as the controversial, and painfully slow, body scanners now found at many airport security checkpoints. However, the new device can complete its scan in a fraction of second, using computer vision and machine learning to spot guns and bombs. This means passengers can simply walk through a scanning gate without stopping or even slowing down -- like the hi-tech scanners seen in the 1990 sci-fi film Total Recall. A nearby security guard with a tablet is then shown either an "all-clear" sign, or a photo of the person with suspicious areas highlighted. Evolv says the system can scan 800 people an hour, without anyone having to remove their keys, coins or cellphones.

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  1. You know what that means. by AdamThor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The easier it is to scan you, the more often you will be scanned.

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  2. Buzzword du jour by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am so sick of hearing about "Artificial Intelligence". There's nothing intelligent about it. It's just fancy pattern-matching, because that's all we can do at this point. It's better pattern-matching than we've been able to do before, but it's pure hype to call it "AI".

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    1. Re:Buzzword du jour by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Antagonistic training explicitly exploits this feature with two systems, one that tries to learn to spot real data from faked, and another that tries to learn to fool the first one.

      That's called "marriage".

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  3. Just not the same by Copid · · Score: 4, Funny

    But can it steal your iPad from your checked bag?

    Can it roll its eyes at you because you don't know that the latest rev of the asinine rules about which things go in which bin?

    It's going to be a while before we can truly replace everything humans do for us.

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