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>> Reading the number plate, on the other hand…

Yep, that's a honest-to-god AI task :)

>> Detecting assaults may be computationlly unreasonable at this point, but there is work on generating 3D meshes which map to all human bodies in a scene, so it’s not unreasonable to draw a line from one to the other.

I think the closest analogy is pose estimation, where there's quite a bit of work (in particular, I think there's a lot of interest in learning to identify body postures that can lead to a fall, in order to reduce injuries to older people). I don't remember seeing work on identifying criminal intent in particular, though.

My intuition is that it's more than a matter of computational resources and will require some algorithmic advances. But, you never know.

>> (I have been given one speeding ticket, but in error because I had sold the car before the incident).

Automation, eh? :)



> Automation, eh? :)

Yup. No idea how it went wrong given I only owned it for only a few weeks specially so I could sell it on behalf of my partner after she accidentally moved to America (I have a complicated reality [1]), and the DVLA sent me acknowledgment, about nine months before I got the letter from the police, that I had sold it.

[1] “And that’s how I found out that Michael Jackson works for the USAF.”




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