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I know there's a significant anti-AI presence here. I'm not promoting it. I found it interesting to read how it was used, it's strengths and limitations.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 34 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

This is what it's supposed to be used for. Things like this are where LLMs are a benefit to society. The ability to "intelligently" process incredible amounts of information fast lends itself to things like this. Or helping Air Traffic controllers do their often hectic jobs, or sifting though the trillions of gigabytes of data that come in from space telescopes looking for anomalies, etc... etc... etc...

THAT would make me excited about AI. More...of....this....

But instead they use it make people even more lazy, and make corporations able to make billions more by firing real humans.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Eril@feddit.org 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I was about to say. Couldn't imagine an LLM would be great at stuff like this.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, this is right up machine vision alley, and is a pretty straightforward and good thing in general. It lets computers look through haystacks that humans just would take forever to get through. A thoroughly attentative human may do as well, if not better, given enough time, but it takes a lot of time and a human will burn out before reviewing that much imaging.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Dear God please do not let any of the current iterations or any of the next or even the ones after that of an llm anywhere near an air traffic controller tower. Fucking swear to God we will have planes smashing into each other when they start hallucinating their asses.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

Oh, believe me. I agree. But this is what they SHOULD be working towards improving LLMs for, NOT better ways to steal art.

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago

This reminds me of that old SCP where some photo of a mountain had like 4 pixels of the "anomaly" in it, which would trigger if you noticed the 4 pixels. SCP-096 I think. Haven't been on that site in ages, lol.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 21 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The AI picked through the pictures taken by the drone pilots pixel by pixel, looking for anything that might look out of place on the mountainside. The software identified dozens of potential anomalies from a large number of photographs in a matter of hours.

The selection, however, still needed to be whittled down with some human expertise.

"The software could react to different things, like a piece of plastic garbage or an unusually coloured rock," says Isola. "It can even hallucinate some things. So, we still had to narrow it down further by taking into consideration the path that Ivaldo, as a very skillful climber, might have used."

Interesting process. "AI" as a term gets so overused, but in this instance I think they're really talking about image neural net processing.

This other one mentioned sounds like just image processing:

Other software that searches for unusually coloured pixels in natural landscapes – developed by the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association in the UK – has been used to locate the body of a missing hillwalker in Glen Etive in the Scottish Highlands in 2023.

Or is it ML, not AI?

The key is to keep training the machine learning systems that power these algorithms to improve their accuracy in different types of terrain and conditions, says Tomasz Niedzielski, an expert in geoinformatics at the University of Wrocław and leader of the team that developed the SARUAV software.

Overall interesting process but could be a lot more specific about the technology.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

ML is also AI. Obviously would be one of those instead of the LLM stuff, and generally the LLM stuff is the more controversial.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Not really. We have had access to ml for a while and google used ml to blur license plates in streetview for a long time now. It's just pattern recognition with reinforcement.

Neural learning has been around since 2004-ish.

[–] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

ML isn't AI, but a lot of people (companies trying to make money) have started branding it as AI.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, prior to the whole LLM craze ML was pretty much 'the' AI thing.

Note that AI got so messy they started saying the thing people imagined is 'AGI', so I don't know if you are thinking that, but in that picky scenario there is no such thing as 'AI' on the market with that definition.

I mean, prior to the whole LLM craze ML was pretty much 'the' AI thing.

In pop culture, perhaps.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So stuff that already existed more than ten years ago.

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago

Basically, yes. Just more sensitive.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry friend. Lemmy will always downvote anything that potentially paints AI in anything but a negative light, regardless of the context

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I expected it. I guess I don't see things in black and white anymore.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world -2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Basically, yes. Just more sensitive.

Do you really...

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

I have no fucking clue what you're trying to say