AI predicts crime a week in advance with 90 per cent accuracy
I am very skeptical.  I suspect that the accuracy - metric undisclosed in the article - is dominated by “easy” cases.<p>For example, I can tell you where protestation &#x2F; solicitation will occur next week with 100 percent positive predictive value.  Same with car break ins and drug dealing.<p>You don’t need an algorithm for that. You can figure it out by just driving around a few neighborhoods for a couple hours.<p>I suspect that the algorithm does not do well on the non-obvious stuff.