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New compression technique (lemmy.today)
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[+] -10 points 2 months ago (22 children)

There is a future where AI can simply look up the DNA for any individual you specify and it can perfectly reconstruct what they look like, at any age.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    You're joking, right? There's a reason genotype and phenotype aren't synonyms.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    There's also a reason identical twins look alike.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    Don't know why you're being downvoted, it's a good point that shows that genetics is the main factor for your appearance

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Identical twins also share the same womb, so it's not 100% genes.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Same womb, similar growing environment, etc.

    But even then, they're not perfectly identical. Very similar, but not the exact same.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Maybe but there is more to the outcome than just genes. Certain ones can be activated of deactivated and that can be done by epigentics for example. Gene expression is a thing.

    The AI would need way more information that just DNA to generate an image of the person.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    But they could probably get 90% the way there with just DNA. I think that was the point.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    No, they couldn't, that's what's being said. If you have a huge state machine with billions of parameters, toggling a different subset can yield wildly different results.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    But there are examples of twins who grew up apart and still look almost identical

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Forensic DNA phenotyping is actually being used. Of course it's not perfect, but it can give a direction.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Hadn't heard of this before but I'm more than a little skeptical, especially if its being used for policing

    "More recently, companies such as Parabon NanoLabs and Identitas have begun offering forensic DNA phenotyping services for U.S. and international law enforcement. However, the science behind the commercial services offered by Parabon NanoLabs has been criticized as it has not been subjected to scrutiny in peer-reviewed scientific publications. It has been suggested that it is not known "whether their ability to estimate a face’s appearance is better than chance, or if it’s an approximation based on what we know about ancestry” -DNA phenotyping wiki

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