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This is one of the good uses of AI. It is called object detection with neural networks and is a very classic use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision.
There was no LLM, no transformer, no huge data center necessary for training this model.
Please distinguish generative from predictive AI, it means a lot to all the data scientists out there inventing cool stuff!
No, this is not a good use for AI. First, the concept here is to treat symptoms instead of the actual issue, second, stopping suicide attempts from happening isn't the only thing AI is used for here and third, in the context of second, a 15% hallucination rate means a lot of innocent people are harassed for doing nothing wrong.
When it comes to suicide prevention, I'd prefer having a few false positives than any false negatives.
Stopping people from dying is good.
That's not the issue where I criticised the false positive rate though, if you read my comment carefully. I hope I made it clearer with my edit.
people only said suicide detection was a good use of AI, not crime surveillance. and nobody's pretending stopping a suicide attempt treats the underlying issues either, and that's still better than not stopping it
Oh no someone might ask the victim of a false positive if they’re okay. The horror.
I guess you never have been targeted by unfounded police action. I hope you never will. It is fucking scary and traumatising.
American police is in its own category when it comes to cruelty in “police action”.
Don’t generalise it to other countries where becoming a police officer isn’t a 3 week online course.
I am not talking american police. I'm talking about experience with german police. You know, where you have to go to university for three years.
The training doesn't matter when several armed officers are applying forceful measures against you, you have no idea why, are panicing and your panic reaction is read as resisting police officers. Because that is standard procedure.
I don't know how the AI can hallucinates in such scenario, but it's better to harass some people to prevent some other people from committing suicide on those bridges.
That is how it hallucinates.
Besides that, you unfortunately also did not read my comment completely. I specifically pointed out the other instances this AI surveillance system is used on, the article brings up crime as an example. That is where 15 percent hallucination rate means a damn lot of innocent people get harassed by police.
Oops, my bad for didn't read the whole article.
The AI only flagged the people (or the objects it misidentified as people), but the human still decides whether those people are worth checking on. I think it still the human's fault if a lot of innocent people get harrassed by the police.
Why is AI necessary for that? I'm not a programmer, but that seems like a simple if/then statement
Sure, but you need a way to identify whether an object is a person. That's a lot less simple.
Still don't need AI for that
There are very few things we as humans “need”.
But a ton of things that make stuff easier. Like using “AI” to detect humans in this case
Wow, you've convinced me
Damn, I cant solve societal problems, might as well just let them jump!
Youre a fucking moron.