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We are watching the explosion of artificial intelligence growth right before our eyes. Everyone is talking about ChapGPT these days, and for a good reason, but it isn’t the only AI program making news. Now there is a new software designed to produce rapid composite sketches that may revolutionize police work.
Filipe Reynaud and Artur Fortunato tapped into an existing AI-based image generation tool – OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 – to design their new program. The result is what they call Forensic Sketch AI-rtist. Reynaud and Fortunato developed Forensic Sketch AI-rtist with the express intent of helping police departments produce composite sketches.
The current process for composite sketches requires a skilled artist working with a witness (or witnesses) to produce a likeness for a possible suspect. It is a lengthy and time-consuming process that typically takes between two to three hours. Reynaud and Fortunato hope to shorten that.
In an email release, the developers stated, “We haven’t released the product yet, so we don’t have any active users at the moment. At this stage, we are still trying to validate if this project would be viable to use in a real-world scenario or not. For this, we’re planning on reaching out to police departments in order to have input data that we can test this on.”