USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO SOLVE COLD CASES
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The mother of Savannah Guthrie, co-anchor of NBC's "TODAY" show, has been reported missing in Arizona, officials said Sunday.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen Saturday night in her home outside Tucson, according to a missing persons flyer. She was reported missing by her family around noon Sunday, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said.
Nanos told reporters that aspects of the scene at the home caused "grave concern."
“This one stood out because of what was described to us at the scene and what we found and located just in looking at the scene,” Nanos said.
He did not elaborate on what evidence at the home caused such concern.
Homicide detectives were called out to process the scene, Nanos said. Their involvement is not standard protocol, and foul play cannot be ruled out, he said.
Nancy Guthrie. (Pima County Sheriff's Department)© Pima County Sheriff's Department
“There are some things there that are concerning to us, we just don’t want to miss anything,” Nanos told NBC affiliate KVOA in Tucson.
The Guthrie family said in a statement: “We can confirm this is a missing persons case, and the family is working closely with local law enforcement.”
Nancy Guthrie is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Her family last saw her at home around 9:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. Saturday, Nanos said.
"Miss Guthrie is 84 years old and is not in good physical health," the sheriff said, but noted her family reported no cognitive issues.
Drones, an airplane, a helicopter, volunteers and search-and-rescue dogs loaned from Customs and Border Protection were all scouring the area for Guthrie, Nanos said.
Nanos encouraged anyone who has any information to call the sheriff’s department.
In their statement, the Guthrie family expressed gratitude for "the outreach, thoughts and prayers" and also asked for anyone with information to contact authorities.
Savannah Guthrie has frequently discussed her close relationship with her mother over the years.
“She loves us, her family, fiercely, and her selflessness and sacrifice for us, her steadfastness and her unmovable confidence is the reason any of us grew up to do anything," she said in a 2022 tribute to her mother on her 80th birthday.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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Ai: 81 years of detective work in 30 hours
Ai: 81 years of detective work in 30 hours
The tool being tested by Avon and Somerset Police is one of dozens of "ground-breaking" innovations that could soon be rolled out across the UK.
Some of the country's most notorious cold cases could be solved with the help of an artificial intelligence tool that can do 81 years of detective work in just 30 hours.
Avon and Somerset Police are trialling the technology which can identify potential leads that may not have been found during a manual trawl of the evidence.
It comes after Sky News reported fewer police officers from the UK's largest force are working on unsolved murder cases, while last week the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley described his force as "dangerously stretched".
Five Met officers are moving from a specialist cold case department investigating the 30-year-old murder of Atek Hussain to bolster basic command units.
Mr Hussain, 32, was stabbed in the heart as he returned from work in September 1994. He managed to stagger to his home and tell his family that his attackers were Asian before collapsing.
The Met said the case is not currently active, but no unsolved murder investigation is ever closed and Mr Hussain's case was last reviewed by its Serious Crime Review Group in August.
Mr Stephens said the Soze tool is one of "dozens of ground-breaking programs" which could soon be rolled out across the UK.
They include an AI tool to build a national database of knives, which could be used to put pressure on retailers, and a system that allows call handlers to focus their attention on speaking to domestic abuse victims.
"If all of those 64 examples were adopted all across England and Wales and had similar gains to those of the forces using them, we'd get something like 15 million hours of productivity back to spend on things like investigations or responding to emergencies, which equates to more than £350m in costs," the chief constable said.
But he said AI and other technology such as facial recognition and robotic automation procedures are "not a replacement" for police, with an officer "involved in the final decisions".
Police chiefs also recognise the pace of its implementation and use must be in line with what the public is comfortable with.
"This isn't handing over our responsibilities to technology but what the technology is helping us to do better," said Mr Stephens.
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