What you are about to read is not a horror movie script, but a frightening and at the same time amazing reality. Artificial intelligence is used in almost every mobile application today. Services for managing bank accounts are no exception, and some of them use neural networks for facial recognition. Recently, a terrible incident occurred in China - a man killed a woman and tried to take possession of her bank account by logging in by showing her blue face on camera.
To begin with, it's worth talking about the motives for the crime. Police in Fujian Province, China, said that on the evening of April 11, a man named Zhang had a fight with his girlfriend. The reason for the quarrel turned out to be money and it got to the point that in a fit of anger the man strangled his beloved. He subsequently took her smartphone and launched the Money Station banking app to steal $ 4,200 from her account, which led to the quarrel.
Face recognition system in applications
The peculiarity of the application used by a woman is that for authorization, you need to look at the smartphone's camera. The man was not taken aback and showed the blue face of his victim to the camera. Probably, he was very surprised, because the application did not work - for successful authorization in the application, you need to wink, and the face of the dead woman was motionless.
This is where the fun began. Recognizing the woman's still face, the artificial intelligence sounded the alarm and signaled to the bank's staff to look at her face for themselves. Bank employees noticed that she had bruises and a strange mark on her neck, similar to that left by suffocation. It became clear to them that the woman needed to be found by geolocation.
Artificial intelligence solved the crime
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They succeeded - the police got on the trail of the killer and caught him at the moment when he was trying to burn the woman's body. Subsequently, it turned out that, in addition to trying to steal money, the man tried to cover his tracks. In particular, using a smartphone, he wrote to the woman's employer and asked for leave on her behalf. He also told the victim's parents that she was going on vacation.
The man sent messages via WeChat - practically the main messenger in China.
At the moment, the man is going to be tried, but the date of the beginning of the proceedings is still unknown. The killer must face a decent prison sentence, but we will not know the verdict soon. According to statistics, there are thousands of premeditated murders in China every year. In 2016, for example, 8,634 murders were committed, but the described case is perhaps the first of its kind. After all, do you really know another case when artificial intelligence solved a crime by looking at the dead face of a murder victim?
Ramis Ganiev