Serial murder is one of the most difficult and frightening crimes today. Moreover, in the twentieth century, their number increased greatly, and some serial maniacs have not yet been found. But soon artificial intelligence will come to the aid of the police, which has already managed to solve one riddle.
To search for serial killers, they will use the CARMEL algorithm, which was able to decipher a mysterious handwritten 105-page manuscript of the 18th century. According to Next Web, AI will work according to the well-known scheme: in order to catch a criminal, you need to think like a criminal. The algorithm must understand the line of reasoning of a person and "hack his thoughts" in order to calculate the person by the "handwriting" of his crime.
Now the algorithm is being trained on the materials of already solved cases, which have been archived since the 1960s. One of the main things AI learns from is the story of a killer called the Zodiac. He killed people in northern California and around San Francisco. Apart from the nickname, nothing is known about the killer until now. He himself chose such a pseudonym, which he indicated in notes sent to the editors of local newspapers. In addition, 4 cryptograms were also found in the envelopes, in which the killer encrypted information about himself. The police were able to decipher only one of them. Now CARMEL goes through the biographies and correspondence of hundreds of thousands of people, comparing them with the 340-character cryptograms of the Zodiac.
In addition, one of the researchers, Thomas Hangrove, created a similar algorithm called the Murder Accountability Project (MAP). According to Thomas, “Every year 5000 criminals escape punishment. Therefore, our algorithm is working on creating a "map of unsolved murders", identifying areas where most often crimes are committed, the perpetrators of which have not been found. The algorithm scans all the data that the FBI gives access to, and then highlights cases in which specific details coincide, typical of similar crimes committed (possibly) by the same person. After that, all the data is put on a map, looking at which it becomes clear in which areas of the city it is most dangerous to appear."
Vladimir Kuznetsov