• Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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    Data scientist here; there simply are not enough murders to model this, so they will need to use proxies for “likely” murderers (like any sort of violent crime). That means the model will very strongly target people who are over-policed (minorities) and those more likely to actually get caught and charged for things, and thus be in the training data set (poor people). It will also fail spectacularly for this purpose because even a highly accurate model will produce almost 100% false positives -again, because actual murders are so vanishingly rare. The math just doesn’t work.

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    9 days ago

    Will this drive the first wrongfully accused person to suicide or will it just somehow, magically, target all brown and black people? Stay tuned to see how much taxpayer money gets sunk into this tool.

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    apparently Uk govt has never played watch dogs legion, nor seen Equilibrium (C Bale movie), nor Minority Report, nor Richard III, nor read Brave New World, nor the billion other movies, novels, games, poems, songs, Banksy art, social videos, cave paintings, etc that specifically warned UK not to (re)become the villain (over and over again)

    it’s like the 2nd most popular culture topic… after “love” or something

    but noooo, just had to be edgelordsandladies.gov.uk

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      “What can we do to improve society, I know I’ll watch some dystopian SciFi for ideas” - the UK government probably

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      Psycho Pass.

      Another one to the list. Great anime. It’s like if Blade Runner and Minority Report had a loving relationship and a beautiful child was the byproduct of this union.

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      “UK developing new hybrid non lethal/lethal weapon that will use murder risk prediction score to select operating mode. This amazing invention will cut down on police related deaths, learn more tonight on BBC.”

      I swear the UK is as dystopian as the US and even worse in a lot of ways.

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        I swear the UK is as dystopian as the US and even worse in a lot of ways. It literally always has been and that fact is why the US even exists.

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        I swear the UK is as dystopian as the US and even worse in a lot of ways.

        Why do you think they wanted Brexit? Now they can apply all their demented ideas to their country freely.

        I, for one, haven’t set foot there since Brexit officially concluded. Shame that I have friends there but, I hear it’s becoming worse by the day anyways.

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        Ah yes, the good old way of throwing electromagnetic waves at people after putting their cymatic scans inside a shared pool of neutrally and selected shared consciousness of dissected sociopaths brains.

        I didn’t have it on my Bingo card.

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    They should make three, and they all have to agree, but if only one disagrees then maybe they can ignore it, call it the “minority account” or something like that.