AI tool developed in Australia could help solve notorious cold cases overseas [Video]

Australian technological know-how could be used to help solve some of Britain’s most notorious cold cases.

A trial of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, developed in Australia, found it can review evidence in about 30 hours, compared with 81 years by human experts, the Independent reports.

UK police chiefs hope new lines of inquiry could be found in the future by running the technology over previous case files for unsolved crimes.

The AI tool, known as Soze, was tested by the Avon and Somerset Police, in south-west England, on 27 complex cases.

It took just 30 hours to review all the evidence, the results revealed.

For humans to assess the same material, it would have taken up to 81 years.

More extensive testing will now be carried out to fine-tune …