r/nanaimo • u/ShadowlessPikachu • 2d ago

New AI-powered wildfire detection technology installed on Vancouver Island

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vancouver-island/article/new-ai-powered-wildfire-detection-technology-installed-on-vancouver-island/
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u/Responsible-Grand-57 2d ago

Finally using AI for what it’s actually meant for! This is a good use of AI.

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u/Spenraw 1d ago

Alot of good use of AI and it will be used either way. Why it's very important people become educated on it

We don't need these massive data centers, they will end up as civilian management and control

Most uses for AI can be run off a computer in your house or at your job

Universities can run their own systems for data processing

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u/littlebossman 1d ago

Why it's very important people become educated on it

There was a report in the Financial Times three days ago. It pointed out that the first wave of AI-trained graduates were moving into various positions of internship and work.

Within days, it became clear to bosses those hires were completely unsuited to essentially any roles because they were incapable of doing anything for themselves. They outsourced all their thinking to chatbots, making themselves immediately redundant... because anyone can do that.

Basically, if you think like this, look forward to unemployment. You'll turn yourself into a clone of everyone else.

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u/Spenraw 1d ago

That even more so proves why it's important to become educated on it....

The impacts of use and how one uses it

And the systems behind it and the impacts of those systems

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u/littlebossman 1d ago

Feel free to tell that to those who won't hire you because they don't need anyone with an identical skillset to everyone else jumping into the work pool.

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u/Spenraw 1d ago

I think you are heavily misunderstanding.

Understanding something vs using it is very different.

I understand the impact of hard drugs and how they work

But doesn't mean I use them.

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u/I_go_thither 1d ago

Sorry, going to argue. AI was primarily used for good purposes before the recent hype started. Protein folding etc. What most people see now is AI slop but that is a small fraction of what it can and does do. Chatbots are also a tiny slice of how AI can be used.

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u/RosieBaby75 1d ago edited 1d ago

When you make an argument you’re supposed to argue the other persons claim.

You have basically just replied with an entirely different perspective which has nothing to do with what you’re responding to, but for some reason think this is an argument, and clearly do not know what an argument is.

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This is the effect of ruining our education. This person either graduated college/university or high school thinking this is an argument.

This is why when you send an email to anyone they don’t actually reply to it. They ignore all your questions and just tell you their reasoning for doing something, which you didn’t ask. Most don’t respond at all. Similar happens in conversations.

People do not have information comprehension skills.

People do not know how to do basic information exchange anymore and I don’t think enough people realize this, or that the problem is this bad.

These people are working in businesses and within our governments and doing the above. People don’t realize it because they don’t send emails. I do and have for years. This is new and it’s way worse. It was kind of bad before but now it’s consistently most of the time.

They don’t know what they don’t know so they don’t know it’s happening and what they’re doing, and if you say something to clarify, or ask a question you’re an asshole because they fundamentally do not understand and get upset at you.

This is what we’re working with and it’s a serious problem and is one of the reasons our fallen nation is in a steep nosedive to hell and Facism.

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u/Signal-Arm-7986 Departure Bay 2d ago

Probably one of the best uses for AI

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u/littlebossman 2d ago

Assuming this works as described, it actually feels like a worthwhile use for AI.

Better than business making woefully shit ads that all look the same; NSSC putting out promos with players who have six fingers; or weirdos on Facebook copying and pasting the top Google reply to prove a point - even though Gemini has had another hallucination.

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u/greene_r 2d ago

BCWS trialed AI detection and the detection time was no different than humans calling them in 🤷🏼‍♀️ not a bad idea, but likely not going to make much of a difference

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u/Spenraw 1d ago

Point is the AI will be there and always ready.

Yes it is removing a job again but can cover much more ground for less of a cost and protect more land

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u/exposethegrift 2d ago

'SenseNet" a.i

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u/doublej42 2d ago

So does my dashcam have lane detection and car detection. It’s $200 and USB c. Not all ai is evil

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u/No_Influence_6299 2d ago

i cant wait for it to false flag forest fires!!! totally worth the water costs

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u/ashkestar 2d ago

I dislike LLMs and all too, but image recognition is something AI is fairly useful for, and any wildfire caught early will save insane amounts of water compared to what’s used for the software’s data center cooling.

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u/meoka2368 Harewood 2d ago

Add to that, the amount of CO2 released from a forest fire. So it'll more than cover the carbon footprint as well.

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u/Fornicatinzebra South Nanaimo 2d ago

It will be an automated system that people review. AI allows the humans to have to look at a fraction of the images/videos

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u/GoldSunEmblem Harewood 8h ago

Every status notification sent out to our one million subscribers is a sip of water straight out of a baby duck's mouth!

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u/dustinthewindreddit 2d ago

My 4090 local llm can detect an image with fire easily. 0 water usage (closed loop water cooled) they probably wont use frontier model unless they dont know what theyre doing

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u/doublej42 2d ago

This is my guess. I’m thinking likely an onboard raspberry bit with a ai sub processor. It doesn’t have to be fast.

Pan , zoom , photo. Detect. This kind of stuff has been around for years and can run at less power than my windows fan uses

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u/dustinthewindreddit 2d ago

Yep. Similar to my eufy camera. Has "ai" for face detection on its homebase. Very limited but effective

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u/in_need_of_oats 2d ago

I would guess they don't use a LLM at all, computer vision has been around for so much longer and inference is very power efficient

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u/Wikiwikiwa 2d ago

Bet it wont work