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Predicting Future Crimes - using AI
- hunglee2 4y agowhen I read the headline I expected the news report to be from China but was surprised to read it referring to research from the US. If this 'AI Algorithm' does indeed have predictive value, you can see the temptation for governments to use it. In fact, you might argue that the government might have the obligation to do so - imagine if you could minority report a future mass shooter - you would have to do something surely? Thankfully we have democracy to protect us from state overreach
- jollyllama 4y ago> imagine if you could minority report a future mass shooter Is that the kind of crime that they're predicting here? What percentage of those are guys with prior convictions?
- hyperboreanChad 4y ago
- dboreham 4y agoIs this the AI equivalent of "The Onion"?
- penciltwirler 4y agoReminds me of Minority Report.
- mrcheesebreeze 4y agoalso its similar to watchdogs, in that game series the companies used ai to predict crimes and stole tons of user data to profit by selling it. we are already dealing with the latter irl, hopefully the former doesn't come to fruition.
- _tomcat_ 4y agoSomething like this should probably be used to monitor/identify corruption in government. To me, that's the biggest threat to the USA.
- hprotagonist 4y agoon the validation set. in one city, on historical data. and as the good reverend bayes was so thrilled to show, 90% accurate can be unusably poor performance pretty easily.
- sfusato 4y agoFree will is close to expiration, folks. It was good while it lasted.
- stareatgoats 4y agoThe title is misleading - or at the least borderline disingenuous: it implies that an "AI algorithm" now can predict individual crimes, whereas the "algorithm" is only able to forecast number and types of some crimes on an aggregate level, in a sufficiently large area (a neighborhood). Which is a far cry from minority report, and essentially nothing new. The findings about the skew between wealthy and poorer neighborhoods was interesting though, but not entirely surprising.
- kthejoker2 4y agoI flagged this because of the title, which is completely irresponsible.
- taubek 4y agoI've changed the title. I hope that it is ok now.