Predicting Future Crimes - using AI
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Predicting Future Crimes - using AI
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#2when 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
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#4Is this the AI equivalent of "The Onion"?
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#5on 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.
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#6Reminds me of Minority Report.
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#7Something like this should probably be used to monitor/identify corruption in government.
To me, that's the biggest threat to the USA.
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#8Free will is close to expiration, folks. It was good while it lasted.
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#9when 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 s…
> 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?
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#10The 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.