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Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’ algorithms to detect the unwanted objects, according to interviews and documents the Guardian obtained through public records requests.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

the accuracy for lived-in cars is still far lower: between 10 and 15%

Sounds like the tech isn’t terribly useful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if it could spot Steve

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I'm so grateful he's Canadian

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

That surely won’t stop governments from throwing millions at it or private companies from taking the money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It doesn’t have to be accurate to be useful

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

Basically a dowsing rod, totally incapable of detecting bombs, drugs, etc. But possibly still useful as a probable cause generator.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

That was probably one of the more depressing Wiki articles I've read in a minute.