Have you ever wondered that while you’re typing your password to access your own account on the internet, someone could watch you tapping on touchscreen phones and steal your password - that person could be an AI.
Modern Computer Vision techniques have the ability to imbue us with the kind of technological superpower. We use Computer Vision for everything from cancer detection to counting large numbers of objects in a photograph. We can see that nothing can stop a clever developer from training an AI system to infer text from keystrokes or finger movement.
Recently, researchers have discovered and demonstrated the ability for computers to authenticate users with nothing but AI-based typing biometrics to see human fingers movement with an accuracy of 99.9 percent. Moreover, psychologists have developed automated stress detection systems using keystroke analysis that humans seem to change their typing patterns when it comes to stress.
These technologies are trained to monitor human typing movement, so it is possible and easy for AI to steal our passwords just like what many of us used to do to others only that we don’t have the ability to determine exactly which keys they’re pressing. But AI has more ability than humans with an accuracy rate of 100 percent.
This is something humans like us have to be aware of, and researchers should find a guard to protect and prevent it. Especially when we’re living in a world of the internet where a cloud-based infrastructure is connected, data theft has increased to create big losses and the problem of privacy continues to infiltrate our lives.