404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly geolocate photos.
In addition, any organization that’s using this at scale will also have human experts to handle the edge cases and to validate the system’s findings.
We can’t copy the human expert without years of training, but copying a program/computer system is only a few terminal commands. The ability to do this kind of thing at scale is entirely new.
This is the kind of thing that machine learning is very very good at. Its never going to be perfect but its definitely gonna outperform humans.
In addition, any organization that’s using this at scale will also have human experts to handle the edge cases and to validate the system’s findings.
We can’t copy the human expert without years of training, but copying a program/computer system is only a few terminal commands. The ability to do this kind of thing at scale is entirely new.