"Safarik spent more than a decade studying serial killings, sexual assaults and stalking cases."
no history of gang crime, "didn't have a boyfriend or a criminal record", "wallet left", "Mustang wasn’t taken", "parking lot was lighted and patrolled", Her tube top was pulled down exposing her breasts." -> "sexual assault”. "wipes his hand over his brow" -> guilty.
Imagine Safarik was a Machine Learning algorithm. More than a decade's worth of training data led to a model that predicted Jennings to be guilty.
The counter-evidence (phone missing, no scratch marks) wasn't part of the model.
In his defence, Safarik denies "assigning too much weight to [evidence]. It was the totality of things that shaped his finding."
Likewise, it is difficult to fix errors in a Machine Learning model once it is trained. The "totality of things" is the history of other crimes the model has investigated.
Can Deep Learning do the same job as criminal profilers? Are they as accurate? Should their predictions be trusted, when the consequence of failure is 11 years of prison for an innocent man?
no history of gang crime, "didn't have a boyfriend or a criminal record", "wallet left", "Mustang wasn’t taken", "parking lot was lighted and patrolled", Her tube top was pulled down exposing her breasts." -> "sexual assault”. "wipes his hand over his brow" -> guilty.
Imagine Safarik was a Machine Learning algorithm. More than a decade's worth of training data led to a model that predicted Jennings to be guilty.
The counter-evidence (phone missing, no scratch marks) wasn't part of the model.
In his defence, Safarik denies "assigning too much weight to [evidence]. It was the totality of things that shaped his finding."
Likewise, it is difficult to fix errors in a Machine Learning model once it is trained. The "totality of things" is the history of other crimes the model has investigated.
Can Deep Learning do the same job as criminal profilers? Are they as accurate? Should their predictions be trusted, when the consequence of failure is 11 years of prison for an innocent man?