The most notorious cold cases could be solved with artificial intelligence that can do 81 years' work in
just 30 hours.
An Australian tool which can absorb and analyse vast amounts of data is being trialled for the first time in Britain by Avon and Somerset Police.
The system, named Söze, can simultaneously examine information from multiple sources including video, social media, emails and hard drives to speed up the investigation process.
Avon and Somerset police have trialled the tool on 27 cases already. The results showed that the force was able to perform a data structuring analysis in just six hours, five minutes and 55 seconds. Done manually, this work would have taken 81 years, in theory.
Gavin Stephens, chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, told reporters:
“I could imagine this sort of thing being really useful for cold case reviews. If there’s a system like this, the software can ingest [case material] and give you an assessment of it. I can see that being really, really helpful in some of the most notorious unsolved crimes out there.”
Söze is one of “dozens of groundbreaking technologies” that police are hoping to use in the coming years.
Mr Stephens said his team had identified “64 current examples of science and innovation that are really helping us move forward”.
As per reports, police resources in the UK are already quite strained, with officers moving away from cold case departments.
Despite this, the tool is part of broader AI efforts aimed at saving time and resources in investigations across the UK. However, Stephens stresses that Artificial Intelligence will not replace human officers, but will solely assist them in making decisions - way faster and more efficiently than conventional methods.
This AI tool could offer fresh hope for unsolved cases, and there's a strong chance that it could help deliver justice long overdue.
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