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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • But part of the issue is that, as with any computer system, you have to control the inputs and anticipate the abuse. With a very bounded system, you can almost keep up. With LLM bots, there’s just no way to prepare a check for every creative way humans can be disgusting.

    If you went to a human illustrator and asked for that, you would (hopefully) get run out of the room or hung up on, because there’s a built in filter for ‘is this gross / will it harm my reputation to publish,’ based on years of human interaction and behavioral feedback, or maybe even some inherent morals.


  • 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.


  • The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Thursday that the agent who killed Good was the same officer dragged by a suspect in Bloomington last June. Although Ross was not named in the 13-page indictment of the driver, he is identified in several court records filed in the case, including photo exhibits from the hospital. He is also listed by name as a witness.

    Nice sleuthing.

    A law enforcement source, who is not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that Ross is the shooter.

    LEO doing something useful!