When I talked to Garrett DeVinck, I asked him to introduce me to a man he'd written about, a man named Daryl Lowe.

Daryl Lowe is the chief of police at the Redmond Police Department.

Redmond is a suburb just outside of Seattle.

It's actually where Microsoft is based. And Daryl has been a police officer for almost 30 years. He worked in Santa Monica for a long time. He's kind of seen it all in terms of his career as a police officer.

Garrett is a reporter for the Washington Post, but he doesn't usually cover law enforcement.

The reason he wrote about Daryl Lowe is because Lowe's police department is working with an AI company called Long Eye.

They're an AI company here in San Francisco that is trying to sell AI tools, chatbot kind of thing,

you know, chat GPT for police.

And Daryl Lowe is actually one of the first chief of police is to actually get access to the technology and deploy it with his officers.

Yeah, like how does it work? Did Daryl talk you through what they do?

Daryl's explained to me that, you know, being a detective is a little different than what we might see in the movies.

A lot of it is essentially just sitting at your desk, slowly going through binders and binders of evidence,

transcripts of interviews, photos that have been gotten through warrants from people's phones,

from their social media profiles, looking for links, trying to draw

those connections. I mean, you can imagine the meme of, you know, someone standing in front of a board

with a bunch of photos and, you know, red string, red yarn connecting it all. And you can imagine that

going through all that evidence does take time and looking for those links. And what Long Eye does

is essentially, you know, you upload either, you know, a giant transcript or you dump a bunch of

photos into there or any kind of other digital evidence. And it uses a large language model,

the same technology behind tools like chat GPT to parse all of it and essentially gives you,

you know, a super search engine where you can say, hey, long eye, you know, I've just given you

60 hours of recordings. Can you tell me if there are any names that come up more than once?

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