Ng said the supercomputer saved officers a lot of time screening online platforms manually, and it could identify the relationship among cross-platform suspected accounts, helping them crack bigger cases. — SCMP
Hong Kong customs authorities are studying how to expand the use of artificial intelligence to solve more crimes, including the trafficking of drugs and cigarettes, the Post has been told.
The Customs and Excise Department started using a new supercomputer in late 2017 to scour social media and websites 24 hours a day to help officers seize fake goods sold online, and the number of such cases cracked by the analytics system has almost tripled over the past year.
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