A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence
The article says that employees of the AI company (ShotSpotter) manually reviewed and classified the sounds as gunshots:<p>> records showed that ShotSpotter actually initially picked up what sounded like a firework a mile away, and this was later reclassified by ShotSpotter staff to be a gunshot at the intersection where and when Williams was seen on camera.<p>So the AI didn’t even make the call. The staff did, manually. I assume that means the actual audio is available and entered into evidence?<p>If humans are making the call then blaming AI seems like a stretch. That’s almost like blaming the motion detection algorithms for triggering video recordings that were later reviewed by humans. It’s still humans reviewing the recordings and making decisions.