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Reminds me of Minority Report.
we are already dealing with the latter irl, hopefully the former doesn't come to fruition.
The 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 neighbor…
Probably need some lowpass filter too.
I flagged this because of the title, which is completely irresponsible.
The 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 neighbor…