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Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers (engadget.com)
SeriousSamy shares a report from Engadget: In the future, you might talk to an AI to cross borders in the European Union. The EU and Hungary's National Police will run a six-month pilot project, iBorderCtrl, that will help screen travelers in Hungary, Greece and Latvia. The system will have you upload photos of your passport, visa and proof of funds, and then use a webcam to answer basic questions from a personalized AI border agent. The virtual officer will use AI to detect the facial microexpressions that can reveal when someone is lying. At the border, human agents will use that info to determine what to do next -- if there are signs of lying or a photo mismatch, they'll perform a more stringent check.
polygraphs are about as effective as flipping a coin.
Not true. Polygraphs don't work on people trained to defeat them. They don't work on some people at all. But for most people most of the time, they work fairly well. They are far below the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of a criminal court, but are certainly better than "flipping a coin".
Polygraph effectiveness is exaggerated by some. Its ineffectiveness is exaggerated by others. The truth is in the middle.
I'm sure this will be much better though - more on par with rolling dice.
Preliminary work based on NN observations of micro-expressions has shown it to be surprisingly effective.