
Investigative Genetic Genealogy w/ Barbara Rae-Venter
Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria
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How to Use Artificial Intelligence to Build Family Trees
The use of artificial intelligence for assistance in building family trees that is an extremely time-consuming activity and there are some folks who are working on tools to be able to do that. IGG was used in the Colberga case out of Idaho it took six weeks for them to identify somebody because they were having to build trees. If you've got a particularly hard case that you really need to solve really quickly if you could use things like AI for helping with building trees that would be really really helpful. He's pessimistic that misplaced concerns about privacy may derail the use of IGG, which he says can negatively impact cases.
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