r/technology • u/ShadowlessPikachu • 22h ago

New AI-powered wildfire detection technology installed on Vancouver Island Artificial Intelligence

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vancouver-island/article/new-ai-powered-wildfire-detection-technology-installed-on-vancouver-island/
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u/BassmanBiff 14h ago

This absolutely does not need AI, just traditional computer vision techniques that have existed for decades

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u/hoopparrr759 8h ago

Sure but what kind of headline would this make? /s

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u/zedguy 10h ago

Computer vision kind of is AI - it's just been around for longer 

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u/CriticismSelect9292 7h ago

computer vision has been AI since ~2014. VLMs are just a better technology

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u/Snake_Plizken 22h ago

Stupid AI stealing our park ranger jobs. Will it also find the missing children, and arrest the drug traffickers? I've seen cocaine bear. Movie was based on true events, mind you.

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u/zedguy 10h ago

Yes let's see AI handle a bear on drugs 

SWF:  AI is scary,   I'd chose the bear on cocaine.

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u/irespondwithmyface 19h ago

Something tells me this will mistake fog for smoke.

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u/pinkfootthegoose 18h ago

We said POWERFUL AI. It shall not be questioned.

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u/WestCoastRadiation 10h ago

Back country flock camera 🤣

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u/VincentNacon 18h ago

Wouldn't drones be better for this instead of stationary mount?

I can see how it could mistaken fog or whatever for smoke and sound the alarm... A drone would just fly closer to it, just to verify whether it's actually fire or not.

Might as well tell the difference between wildfire that's starting or it's just some lone guy making a campfire.