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While this system is hard to defend, it is still in test and it's possible it will never go into production. Less BS than a polygraph maybe?

> Our reporter — the first journalist to test the system before crossing the Serbian-Hungarian border earlier this year — provided honest responses to all questions but was deemed to be a liar by the machine, with four false answers out of 16 and a score of 48.

He might have answered them truthfully, but if he tried (or even unintentionally acted) to influence the perception of the answers is not known.




Regardless of how good it is, do you really want to be told where you can or cannot travel by a machine? Call me an egotist but I think of myself as better than cargo.


No, I don't. But that already happens unfortunately.




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