https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/04/06...lprinting/
EXCERPT: . . . Designed to monitor your health, the [smart toilet] system comes complete with nearly a dozen sensors that can do everything from perform an on-site specimen exam (it checks your poop and urine for things like consistency, color, and glucose and red blood cell count) to time your movements. And it even has built-in cameras and a fingerprint sensor for security purposes.
[...] First, we ruled this out as an April Fool’s Day joke. The paper this diagram came from was submitted to Nature in December of 2019 and published on 6 April. It seems legit. [...] Seriously, we’re not making this up. The researchers are proposing two-factor authentication featuring your finger and your ass. Here’s another snippet from the study:
Another identification method—utilizing the analprint, which is user-specific—was therefore designed and implemented into the toilet system. A scanner was installed to record a short video clip of the user’s anus. The ROI—the anus—was then identified using an image recognition algorithm.
Just think about it: somewhere, an AI had to spend hundreds or thousands of hours training its models on pictures of who-knows-how-many human anuses so it could learn to get good enough at this job to do it in the wild. Remember that when the machines rise up.
As it turns out though, we might not see the analprint scanner in a future commercial version of the smart toilet. The researchers discovered that people don’t seem to enjoy having their analprint taken... (MORE - details, graphics)
RELATED: Why America is losing the toilet race (NPR)
EXCERPT: . . . Designed to monitor your health, the [smart toilet] system comes complete with nearly a dozen sensors that can do everything from perform an on-site specimen exam (it checks your poop and urine for things like consistency, color, and glucose and red blood cell count) to time your movements. And it even has built-in cameras and a fingerprint sensor for security purposes.
[...] First, we ruled this out as an April Fool’s Day joke. The paper this diagram came from was submitted to Nature in December of 2019 and published on 6 April. It seems legit. [...] Seriously, we’re not making this up. The researchers are proposing two-factor authentication featuring your finger and your ass. Here’s another snippet from the study:
Another identification method—utilizing the analprint, which is user-specific—was therefore designed and implemented into the toilet system. A scanner was installed to record a short video clip of the user’s anus. The ROI—the anus—was then identified using an image recognition algorithm.
Just think about it: somewhere, an AI had to spend hundreds or thousands of hours training its models on pictures of who-knows-how-many human anuses so it could learn to get good enough at this job to do it in the wild. Remember that when the machines rise up.
As it turns out though, we might not see the analprint scanner in a future commercial version of the smart toilet. The researchers discovered that people don’t seem to enjoy having their analprint taken... (MORE - details, graphics)
RELATED: Why America is losing the toilet race (NPR)