Researchers develop pretty accurate crime prediction algorithm

[Jan]

Scientists create algorithm that can predict future crime with high accuracy

Researchers from the University of Chicago have developed an algorithm they say can predict individual incidents of crime within 1,000 feet (roughly 333 metres) one week before they take place.

The team behind the research recently published their findings in a Nature Human Behaviour journal article.

 

[Quintrix]

Reminds me of a movie??

OK, don't respond and then read the article. Still don't know the movie.

 

[P924]

Reminds me of a movie??

OK, don't respond and then read the article. Still don't know the movie.

This one?

Minority Report (2002) ⭐ 7.6 | Action, Crime, Mystery

2h 25m | 13

www.imdb.com

 

[WollieVerstege]

Haha, we been having this for years:

IF member of ANC,
AND unspent taxes available,
THEN set corruption to TRUE

 

[Quintrix]

That's the one.

 

[_TrXtR_]

"Science"

 

[hj007]

I'm waiting for someone to complain that this is profiling

 

[borro]

I’m pretty much sure you owe me money.

 

[Grubscrew]

That is nothing some sangomas in South Africa could not only predict a crime happening they will even know who the perpetrators are.

 

[konfab]

The psudocode of their advanced machine learning method:
for each tile in tiles: if tile.percentage_black_people >=0.3: tile.crime_liklihood=1

 

[konfab]

I joked that they were just using racial profiling, but that is pretty much what any ML system would infer looking at Chicago.

 

[Kola-CT]

Old news here, our cops have been using this for years.
How else could they be on the crime scene so often while the crime is taking place...