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>First AI-enabled TOUGHBOOK PC >(AI)-driven tasks for customers across law enforcement departments, federal agencies and utility companies. What are the appli

by ugh123 2y ago

>First AI-enabled TOUGHBOOK PC >(AI)-driven tasks for customers across law enforcement departments, federal agencies and utility companies. What are the applications of law enforcement with AI in the field?

m463 2y ago
> What are the applications of law enforcement with AI in the field? "Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply."
- hypercube33 2y ago
  I was thinking more like demolition man. In a firm voice tell the maniac to lie down
  - m463 2y ago
    (uncertain if you recognize quote is from robocop ED-209)
frankfrank13 2y ago
Likely some simple RAG-based document Q&A (e.g case files, statutes, etc).
eth0up 2y ago
One is writing police reports, according to a recent post on HN. Didn't read it though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358965
- humptybumpty 2y ago
  Ah! A way cut costs. It’s well known that you always need to have two officers in a police patrol: one can read and the other one can write.
acdha 2y ago
Processing media seems useful - have a squad car doing plate and face recognition for suspects, voice recognition and analysis for anything they’re talking about with people, etc. all would be things which could be really useful modulo legal concerns (e.g. it’s probably not a constitutional issue if, say, an officer is talking to someone and their laptop is pulling up information about people or places mentioned, but it’d be a huge issue if they were trying to search people’s phone data without following legal guidelines). A really simple one: you know how Apple has a assistive feature for hearing impairments which warns users about ambient sounds like emergency vehicles or crying babies? I could imagine a police force wanting something like that simply to do something like logging gunshots, vehicle crashes, etc. and possibly triggering an alarm if the officer doesn’t say it’s okay within a short period of time.
wkat4242 2y ago
Two words: Minority Report :)
kotaKat 2y ago
Almost zero-to-none that we already have solutions for like voice recognition or license plate recognition.
widowlark 2y ago
AI is even better at racial profiling than the police. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-recognition-technology-cant-tell-black-people-apart/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-rec...
wildylion 2y ago
Not exactly law enforcement, but a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away we were running local AI to try and spot people lost in the wilderness from drone footage. I imagine same goes for military now...
ackbar03 2y ago
When you need to train that pytorch model in the middle of syria
sharpshadow 2y ago
If they have a specialised GPT they could run it locally during temporary internet outages.
nxobject 2y ago
I'm thinking computer vision applications, especially ones that can't be done on a smaller device – e.g. "based on video from these bodymounted cameras, determine the changing position over time of X, Y, Z."

by ugh123 2y ago

m463 2y ago

> What are the applications of law enforcement with AI in the field? "Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply."

hypercube33 2y ago
I was thinking more like demolition man. In a firm voice tell the maniac to lie down
- m463 2y ago
  (uncertain if you recognize quote is from robocop ED-209)

frankfrank13 2y ago

Likely some simple RAG-based document Q&A (e.g case files, statutes, etc).

eth0up 2y ago

One is writing police reports, according to a recent post on HN. Didn't read it though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358965

humptybumpty 2y ago
Ah! A way cut costs. It’s well known that you always need to have two officers in a police patrol: one can read and the other one can write.

acdha 2y ago

Processing media seems useful - have a squad car doing plate and face recognition for suspects, voice recognition and analysis for anything they’re talking about with people, etc. all would be things which could be really useful modulo legal concerns (e.g. it’s probably not a constitutional issue if, say, an officer is talking to someone and their laptop is pulling up information about people or places mentioned, but it’d be a huge issue if they were trying to search people’s phone data without following legal guidelines). A really simple one: you know how Apple has a assistive feature for hearing impairments which warns users about ambient sounds like emergency vehicles or crying babies? I could imagine a police force wanting something like that simply to do something like logging gunshots, vehicle crashes, etc. and possibly triggering an alarm if the officer doesn’t say it’s okay within a short period of time.

wkat4242 2y ago

Two words: Minority Report :)

kotaKat 2y ago

Almost zero-to-none that we already have solutions for like voice recognition or license plate recognition.

widowlark 2y ago

AI is even better at racial profiling than the police. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-recognition-technology-cant-tell-black-people-apart/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-rec...

wildylion 2y ago

Not exactly law enforcement, but a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away we were running local AI to try and spot people lost in the wilderness from drone footage. I imagine same goes for military now...

ackbar03 2y ago

When you need to train that pytorch model in the middle of syria

sharpshadow 2y ago

If they have a specialised GPT they could run it locally during temporary internet outages.

nxobject 2y ago

I'm thinking computer vision applications, especially ones that can't be done on a smaller device – e.g. "based on video from these bodymounted cameras, determine the changing position over time of X, Y, Z."