British researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to recognize keystrokes by sound. A smartphone placed near a laptop served as the microphone.

This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing::British researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to recognize keystrokes by sound. A smartphone placed near a laptop served as the microphone.

  • RentlarEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Try this: on any keyboard (a membrane keyboard especially if you have one) try quickly tapping one key 3 times and then another key 3 times. Move around the keyboard or alternate between two letters.

    Can you hear that they make different sounds, but typing the same letter has roughly the same sound? The" plok" has a higher or lower pitch (frequency is the scientific word for it), and a trained AI can match that pitch to a letter if it has or can get an idea of what corresponds to what.