You know, it is kind of crazy that a book in 1956 about crime and false convictions called Minority Report, and a 2002 movie with the same concept both are not at all about racism
Larry’ Wilmore’s show after The Daily Show was originally going to be called Minority Report, but the TV series screwed that up. It’s such a better name than The Nightly Show.
There is a PDX intermittent standup/podcast team called Minority Retort, which would’ve been a killer name for Wilmore.
If only.
Nah we just get told we're inherently dangerous for falling under an ultra-vague umbrella of neurotypes, then blamed for the actions of very much neurotypical people.
It's very cool how the 2000s and 2010s were the absolute gutting of "big data" as a legitimate area of comprehensive analysis and the 2020s are when that non-science is being adopted by people who don't know enough to know it's bullshit.
With false arrests still illegal for the moment, a 90% "AI crime prediction accuracy rate" would still result in a 100% arrest-to-crime-committed ratio. The system works!
… funny enough, it’s REALLY hard to get Wired to cough up that article, even with the author’s name and the complete headline. (It’s July, 2022) (DDG can produce it as the top hit.)
15 months from that breathless press release cosplaying as an article to this from October 7 2023:
I don't think I'm even going to bother reading the WIRED article to see where the error in the claim is. Or maybe it's something reasonable, like
A CAR WILL BE STOLEN IN CHICAGO NEXT WEEK
Thank you, all-seeing and all-knowing AI.
WIRED didn’t even get through the title. The actual paper is literally titled “event-level prediction of urban crime reveals a signature of enforcement bias in US cities” and regards how the misallocation of police harms disadvantaged communities and cuts into actually useful resources.
To be fair, the article in question is more than a year old, here's an article copublished in wired from October on the same subject: themarkup.org/prediction-b...
I remember a policeman explaining his statistical system to me:
if there was a burglary at No.10 on Tuesday, another at No.20 on Thursday, then the next burglary would take place at No.15 on a Wednesday, because that’s science.
