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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now, the drone-captured data is sent off to contractors at SewerAI, who run it through their AI-assisted algorithms to identify defects automatically.

Now this is the kind of AI shit (pun intended) I can get behind (pun even more intended).

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the kind of AI that will change the world, not the word salad machines that burn through massive amounts of compute to sound kind of intelligent. The ability to train an AI model to identify problems is incredibly useful, whether it's sewer blockages or cancer cells.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yep. all we have to do is keep incrementally improving lives with tech, instead of being assholes to each other. Imagine the world, if peace was the most researched branch

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Marianne Williamson got laughed at about this in the 2020 US primary, but she was the only person who meaningfully advocated for peace among nations, going so far as to propose a Department of Peace.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Peace isn't something that can be managed in its own department. Peace is the (unstable) result of a lot of other things being very carefully managed.