For 30 years, scientists have been puzzled by what seemed to be a preferential growth of iron crystals in the earth’s inner core towards the axis of the earth. Why would they grow a certain way instead of being distributed randomly? Apparently, it’s because the inner core is asymmetrical; more iron crystals grow on the eastern side underneath Indonesia, and gravity redistributes them to the north and south poles.
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Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
