Artificial intelligence has helped significantly reduce the level of crime in China

Innovative technology has a positive impact on the fight against crime.

China aims to become one of the leading countries in the field of artificial intelligence, which is expressed in the ambitious plans of the government and in the boom of technology companies. One of the applications of AI to law enforcement and investigation of crimes. Local media talk about the successful experience of Shenzhen, where the AI provided a significant reduction in crime.

The search for a lost child in the 10-million city — an impossible task for ordinary police, but the artificial intelligence to cope with it in two seconds. A three-year Shuanghuan was abducted by a stranger in the city of Shenzhen in southern China during the spring festival in 2017. If not for the help of AI, he probably would never have seen parents again. At the local police station has deployed facial recognition technology and the discovery of the suspect, captured by thousands of cameras took only two seconds. Officers quickly identified her, was detained on the train and returned the kidnapped boy.

The salvation of Shuanghuan helped technology, which the company IntelliFusion. Its representatives claim that the facial recognition artificial intelligence is almost never wrong.

High technology has made Shenzhen safer. In Longgang, the first district Shenzhen, who used AI in the field of public safety, the crime rate plummeted. In the first half of 2017 cases of thefts and robberies here have more than halved, while AI has helped to uncover the 67% of such crimes.

Many believe that people still have the strength to outwit the machine. Computer geeks claim they can cheat the security measures of AI and, for example, to access Bank accounts, using the photos to deceive the face detection algorithm.

Representatives IntelliFusion agree: the machine can be fooled, but not when there are people. To combat crime above the developers trained the system to recognize the clothing, body shape and even your posture. Developed by AI also examines how people’s faces change with age. With sufficient training he can learn adults based on their childhood photos. The company hopes that this technology will help parents who lost their children many years ago. Perhaps this will be the ultimate solution in the fight against child trafficking — a problem that bothers millions of parents throughout China.

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