Remember Minority Report yet, that movie where Tom Cruise lets do something nasty with his eyes? Therein Cruise played a cop who chased crooks which was predicted that they would commit a crime. In the film were still people who did the predictions, technology giant Microsoft is working on a computer program to do the same.
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That news does not come from the company itself. Website Fusion has discovered a fairly obscure Youtube video in which Jeff King, a senior developer at Microsoft, gives a seminar for American police officers on the attempts by the company to build a program that human behavior can predict.
The company took recurrence criminal behavior as one of the test subjects for the software. Based on data about prisoners – their affinity with gangs, or they followed rehabilitation programs, their behavior in the cell – the software by 91 percent could predict for sure whether the criminals six months after their release would relapse
Obstacle.
King connected the software with other projects from Microsoft. “Basically this is not very different from what we do with the Halo games on Xbox console, where we try to predict how players will react to a play based on previous situations,” says King.
In a statement to Fusion a spokesman for Microsoft that the software is still in the development phase and that the data used was fabricated was a proof-of-concept.
Would they the software really want to use to gauge criminal behavior, then runs Microsoft against the same obstacle as Tom Cruise in Minorty Report: how can you arrest people if they have committed no crime yet? An error rate of 9 per cent is very much in statistical terms. The message in every way proves that science fiction writers, in this case, Philip K. Dick, often terrifyingly good can predict the future.
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