im glad u appreciate that part lol

This is like half of what black people look like and this type of technology is harmful.

Its not science its an AI image so that cops can harass niggas that look like this be serious.

I think they can determine race from DNA? so its not racist they should use that s*** tf

the point I'm making is that having a picture of someone's facial structure can help u identify them. Even if the pic ur referencing doesn't 100% match the person irl, it still helps.

i hate forum policing but this is so obviously bait to get replies man mods get this s*** out

You do understand that this is likely not how the person looks and this person just looks like an Average black male?

No s*** but it would narrow down a search

Determining someone's facial structure just from their DNA that is even close to being accurate enough to be used in searches is not possible yet tho.

why do you say this is likely not how the person looks?

and in what sense? In dramatic before and after weight loss pics, for example, obviously the person looks very different in both pictures. BUT our brains are still able to look at the faces and determine that these two pictures are of the same person.

What I'm getting at is, the picture they got from DNA evidence is skinny, on the younger side, etc. but even if the suspect is fat as f*** and like 45, you should still hypothetically be able to compare his face to the reference picture and tell that it's the same person.

i mean i suppose it's helpful to know that the perp is an east african (I'm assuming Somali given that it's Edmonton) guy specifically... but yeah that doesn't require this clownish tamagotchi rapist psuedo-police sketch. obviously this composite is totally psuedoscientific, and not helpful in any case. he's a somali with brown skin, brown hair, brown eyes, freckles? you don't f***ing say. we'll keep our eyes peeled

obviously there's limitations and we can't produce a perfect pic of someone's face based just on DNA, but that's more or less because of all the non-DNA factors to someone's appearance. Yes, some of the uncertainty is rooted in how tricky it is to "decode" the DNA information, but I don't think that's as big of a factor as you're making it out to be. In other words, I think you are underestimating our ability to get an idea of someone's general facial structure just from DNA information. (When I say general facial structure, I mean like spacing between eyes, forehead size, general nose shape, etc., not including more environmental s*** like weight, how tan someone is, etc.)

Basically, I agree that we can't get an accurate picture of someone's whole face just off DNA alone, BUT I do think we can use DNA to approximate some general facial features. Also, I think this approximation of general facial structure is accurate enough to be useful.

!dream Unidentified Black Male

He don't even look like any of them, this s*** fake

I’m something of a scientist myself

i jus wanna preface this with i love u rt

but ur wrong

coming from someone who goes to genetics seminars every week

the rendering is more about the facial structure than anything else. Obviously, the guy won't look exactly like the pic, but he will probably have a similar facial structure. Yes, that can be useful.

We can tell that these two pictures are of the same person, despite all the differences. why? Because they have the same face.

we're still trying to figure out whether astrocytes do anything in the brain (hint: they do)

our knowledge of gene to physiology transcription/translation is embarrassingly low

this is something EVERYONE in biology knows

tell me more

I'm just going off some google searches and like two papers I skimmed real quick, I'm prob wrong, but it seemed like there are things about a persons face we can semi-accurately predict off just DNA info

bro i'm not underestimating anything. It's just not possible yet. Countless scientist have tried and have always failed lol. So using something like this to search for a suspect is insanely reckless. S*** probably less reliable than a sketch artist.

Wow, the only Morgan Wallen stan on KTT supports this

You sound dumb

Definitely gonna be used for racist purposes obviously. It’s not hard to see the combination of this and surveillance systems being used to do something like say “monitor every person within 1 standard deviation of this projective feature map” which is just “black male between the ages of 18 and 45” but with science