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This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA
(www.technologyreview.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
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My guess is that they pair your DNA samples with photos of you, because anything else is doomed to failure.
Yeah, the understanding of biology to go from DNA to full body reconstruction is very far away. What they might be thinking of doing is creating a database of face and matching DNA. Then when unknown DNA is queried it probably finds the most similar sequences and then blends some of the most similar faces together.
It's going to have horrible accuracy.
And then perhaps, they will mistake a football with bald-head DNA.
I was imagining that they were going to acquire a large dataset of DNA sequences paired with photos of the patient and then train a neural network to predict one from the other. I don't think that would be particularly successful either (you would need a tremendous amount of data and DNA sequencing is expensive), but it would be interesting to see the results.