Dutch police are using AI to pick out the most solvable cold cases

Dutch Police are using artificial intelligence to crack unsolved cases, according to The Next Web. The national police force is working to digitize the more than 1,500 reports and 30 million pages of material in its cold case archive, only 15 percent of which is currently stored electronically. Once the transfer is complete, a machine learning algorithm will begin combing through the records and deciding which cases have the most promising evidence, reducing case processing time from weeks to a single day. "We're teaching the machine to do forensic screening," Jeroen Hammer, one of the architects of the system, told The Next Web. "The goal is that the AI can read cold cases we're currently digitizing, and decide which ones contain promising evidence that could lead to solving the case."