[HN Gopher] Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search ...
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       Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue
       Teams Can't
        
       Author : sohkamyung
       Score  : 133 points
       Date   : 2024-10-07 10:12 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | isx726552 wrote:
       | Put weapons on it (as already seen in current conflicts) and it
       | becomes a seek-and-assassinate tool. Drones are cheap enough it
       | could even be done _en masse_. It is a scary future, and it's not
       | far away at all.
        
         | rvnx wrote:
         | It exists in Estonia ("thanks" to Googley Eric Schmidt!), it's
         | a company that had codename White Stork.
        
           | avibhu wrote:
           | Ironic name.
        
             | hiddencost wrote:
             | National bird of Ukraine
        
           | ants_everywhere wrote:
           | It looks like they may have changed their name. White Stork
           | is the name of a charity that provides first aid kits and
           | other aid in Ukraine.
           | 
           | https://whitestork.us/
           | 
           | https://x.com/WilliamMcNulty/status/1798855191858712929
        
         | jvanderbot wrote:
         | S&R has always been a front for weaponized robotics, IMHO.
         | 
         | The last DARPA grand challenge (Subterrainean) had automated
         | drone networks that could find and identify humans in caves and
         | tunnels. They were at least up front about the military
         | challenges in these environments.
         | (https://www.darpa.mil/program/darpa-subterranean-challenge),
         | but the nod at civilian first-responders doesn't seem fair.
         | Honestly, is cave-in such a big civilian problem that we need
         | to prioritize it as a talking point at all levels?
        
           | shadowgovt wrote:
           | It's generally hard to say what's a "front" for what, unless
           | you mean "what can you get someone to grant you research
           | money for when you really expect to parlay the learnings into
           | another topic."
           | 
           | Everything about the rocketry needed to get to orbit started
           | from warfare purposes, for example. And ARPANET was a foray
           | into how to build a disruption-resistant network for military
           | purposes.
           | 
           | Science and knowledge are a bit of a soup.
        
           | cpgxiii wrote:
           | > Honestly, is cave-in such a big civilian problem that we
           | need to prioritize it as a talking point at all levels?
           | 
           | Considering (1) the number of people who are employed in
           | mining occupations, (2) the frequency of serious accidents in
           | mines, yes. Particularly in developed countries, societies
           | expect that great lengths will be gone to rescue or recover
           | the victims, and mine rescue is incredibly dangerous work.
           | 
           | (1) BLS says ~200K in the US in 2024, although only a
           | minority of them work underground.
           | 
           | (2) BLS says "underground mining machine operators" is the
           | 9th deadliest job in the US, and that is with a large and
           | well-equipped mine rescue system (MSRA says 250 teams across
           | the country).
        
         | looofooo0 wrote:
         | Guess what happens in Ukraine.
        
           | morkalork wrote:
           | The future is already here - it's just not very evenly
           | distributed
        
             | ColinWright wrote:
             | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson
        
         | yieldcrv wrote:
         | I've been saying that any armistace on drones won't come until
         | the US starts being hit by drone warfare. Especially by a
         | foreign militia or nation state
        
           | colechristensen wrote:
           | What do you think UFOs are?
        
             | yieldcrv wrote:
             | they need to cause collateral damage, not busy work for
             | FOIA respondents in Ohio
        
           | idunnoman1222 wrote:
           | The US is the biggest user of drones. What are you talking
           | about?
        
             | hooverd wrote:
             | US civilians aren't subjected to them though.
        
               | shadowgovt wrote:
               | Precisely. It's about terror. The US having the political
               | capital it does (among other things, being a Security
               | Council member in the UN), Americans won't push their
               | government to curtail drone use until and unless they're
               | on the receiving end of asymmetric warfare attacks
               | perpetrated with low-cost disposables carrying lethal
               | payloads.
               | 
               | (Certainly not advocating for this, but noting that it's
               | the most likely trigger to get the ball rolling on
               | regulation of drones in military operation where very
               | little currently exists).
        
         | LorenPechtel wrote:
         | This system would not work against camouflage.
        
           | idunnoman1222 wrote:
           | I mean it would you just have to put different optics on it
           | thermal, near infrared and normal, and have three different
           | detection neural nets
        
         | lupusreal wrote:
         | A read a comment here a while ago about "search and rescue"
         | being a euphemism for military applications and that's the
         | first thing I thought of when I saw this story.
        
       | inexcf wrote:
       | Everyone is thinking the same thing reading that headline. In a
       | stroke of comedic genius the link still says "bodies" instead of
       | "people".
        
         | scintill76 wrote:
         | I'm amazed this problem isn't fixed in every CMS, or at least
         | publishing team processes, by now (the problem is that the link
         | slug is generated from the first title and doesn't update when
         | the title is updated.)
        
           | 0xffff2 wrote:
           | I'm not a web developer at all, but I thought keeping the URL
           | was intentional for SEO reasons.
        
       | 0_____0 wrote:
       | It's basically the FREE POINT square on the bingo card at this
       | point. When someone builds a cool robot that they don't know what
       | to do with, it's inevitably for SAR. I've worked on a couple of
       | them myself.
        
         | hiddencost wrote:
         | Free business ideas, because I want this to exist:
         | 
         | Use drones with IR cameras:
         | 
         | * Find deer after they're shot. Right now you need to hire a
         | blood hound and it takes hours
         | 
         | * Do wildlife surveys for conservation and management
         | departments
         | 
         | * Pest management for farmers
        
           | arkh wrote:
           | Launch from car while stuck in some random traffic jam: learn
           | the cause of the jam and how long it is.
        
             | tashi wrote:
             | A good idea unless it becomes popular.
             | 
             | I'm picturing bumper-to-bumper traffic on a highway with a
             | cloud of drones overhead. Each person in their individual
             | car using their individual drone to all report back the
             | same thing: that everything is moving slowly because there
             | are just too many cars on the road right now. With luck,
             | the drones only crash into each other every once in a
             | while, just like the cars below.
        
             | rnewme wrote:
             | Just get cb radio
        
           | krisoft wrote:
           | Suprisingly your first idea is illegal in some states. For
           | example it is illegal in Texas.
           | 
           | https://www.skysenderos.com/blogs/thermal-drone-deer-
           | recover...
        
           | hluska wrote:
           | If you google "thermal drone for hunting" you will find some
           | YouTube videos about people solving the first problem.
           | 
           | Pest management is a heck of a good idea. The province of
           | Alberta is officially rat free - if Alberta doesn't have
           | something like this I bet they would be interested.
           | Especially if it could do double duty for wildlife surveys.
        
           | sleepybrett wrote:
           | > * Find deer after they're shot. Right now you need to hire
           | a blood hound and it takes hours
           | 
           | They tried this exact thing with the kentucky freeway shooter
           | using both helicopter based FLIR system and IR camera
           | equipped drones and failed. Eventually the dudes body was
           | found by a group of ... as far as i can tell, wilderness
           | youtubers working with a police search party.
           | 
           | Even the dogs didn't find him.
        
         | drhagen wrote:
         | It even has an xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2128/
        
           | A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
           | At this point, xkcd must be like Simpsons. They already did
           | everything.
        
             | amelius wrote:
             | I'm starting to suspect that google is behind xkcd, i.e.
             | running some generative AI script behind the scenes
             | whenever someone looks for a comic.
        
           | y-curious wrote:
           | I'm mind-blown at how relevant that is here
        
       | catskul2 wrote:
       | > The weather was unusually mild for the season, and Kelly
       | thought he might even have time to "bag" a second Munro,
       | 
       | I really hate when people use very uncommon terms without
       | defining them. (or sometimes even people's names)
       | 
       | It's not that I couldn't make a guess based on context, but it's
       | distracting, and I feel like my eyes must have skipped over
       | something and I often keep going back over the text to see what I
       | must have missed reading.
       | 
       | I imagine this is sometimes caused by sloppy editing, especially
       | when they refer to a last name of a person who has yet to be
       | introduced in the article, but I think sometimes it's a
       | deliberate choice and I object.
        
         | arrowleaf wrote:
         | Peak bagging is a very common term in the outdoor sports world.
         | This complaint is like a non-tech person reading a Wired
         | article that mentions JSON and complaining that there's no
         | explainer.
        
           | lukeinator42 wrote:
           | It's honestly even closer to a non-tech person complaining
           | about the word upload being used without an explainer.
        
           | infecto wrote:
           | Which is I assume an extension from the usage in hunting to
           | "bag" an animal which is to catch/kill.
        
             | closewith wrote:
             | No, both stem from literarily and figuratively putting
             | things in a bag. You can bag anything, a kiss, an award,
             | item, person, accomplishment, etc.
        
               | infecto wrote:
               | Do you have any source for your disagreement. Last time I
               | checked the phrasing as it applies to a game bag goes
               | quite far back which would hint at its usage in later
               | examples that you provided.
               | 
               | "Many figurative senses, such as the verb meaning "to
               | kill game" (1814) and its colloquial extension to "catch,
               | seize, steal" (1818) are from the notion of the game bag
               | (late 15c.) into which the product of the hunt was
               | placed. This also probably explains modern slang in the
               | bag "assured, certain" (1922, American English). To be
               | left holding the bag (and presumably nothing else),
               | "cheated, swindled" is attested by 1793."
               | https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=bag
        
               | aspenmayer wrote:
               | You're both right in a way, in that you're able to reason
               | about the word from usage and context but it's a separate
               | meaning entirely, #5 below
               | 
               | From Oxford Dictionary of English
               | 
               | verb (bags, bagging, bagged) [with object]
               | 
               | 1 put (something) in a bag: customers bagged their own
               | groceries | we bagged up the apples | once you've raked
               | the leaves, bag them up right away so that they don't get
               | wet.
               | 
               | 2 succeed in killing or catching (an animal): Mike bagged
               | nineteen cod. * succeed in securing (something): we've
               | bagged three awards for excellence | get there early to
               | bag a seat in the front row.
               | 
               | 3 [no object] (of clothes, especially trousers) form
               | loose bulges due to wear: these trousers never bag at the
               | knee.
               | 
               | 4 North American English informal fit (a patient) with an
               | oxygen mask or other respiratory aid.
               | 
               | 5 (bags or bags I) British English informal a child's
               | expression used to make a claim to something: bags his
               | jacket.
               | 
               | 6 North American English informal abandon or give up on:
               | she ought to just bag this marriage and get on with her
               | life.
               | 
               | 7 informal, mainly Australian and New Zealand English
               | criticize: the fans should be backing him not bagging
               | him.
        
               | closewith wrote:
               | Number 5, bagsying, is subtly different. It's a claim to
               | something, like dibs in the US.
               | 
               | No, both the GP and I are referring to number two,
               | gaining something and literally or figuratively putting
               | it in a bag. It applies equally to game and SaaS revenue
               | and everything in between.
        
               | aspenmayer wrote:
               | I listed that definition also, to differentiate it from
               | the one regarding the mountains.
        
         | infecto wrote:
         | Honest question, what was the most confusing part for you? I am
         | guessing bag as that one might be more obscure but even then in
         | the context I think its guessable but maybe a struggle for non-
         | native english speakers. Munro seems difficult but since your
         | selective quote makes it worse imo.
         | 
         | "...a second Munro, as the Scottish mountains above 3,000 feet
         | are known."
         | 
         | The opening paragraph describes him climbing/hiking a mountain
         | in Scotland. "His plan was to climb Creise, a 1,100-meter-high
         | peak overlooking Glen Etive...". Which then leads into him
         | trying to "bag" a second one.
         | 
         | Just a counterpoint that it does not feel like sloppy editing
         | at all. I struggle to see what would be difficult here for
         | native speakers.
        
           | more_corn wrote:
           | Who bags a mountain? A tortured metaphor if I've ever heard
           | one. And 90% of English speakers don't know what a Munro is.
           | I've been to Scotland and never heard the word.
        
             | infecto wrote:
             | > Who bags a mountain? A tortured metaphor if I've ever
             | heard one. And 90% of English speakers don't know what a
             | Munro is. I've been to Scotland and never heard the word.
             | 
             | Peak bagging is common in that community but "to bag"
             | something is quite common in native english or at least
             | enough so that its in the Oxford dictionary. Hard for me to
             | see a native speaker struggle with this, the connection can
             | be made just from the prior paragraph.
             | 
             | They define what a Munro is in the same sentence. Are you
             | here to just argue? I had to go back and add your post as a
             | quote as I am not sure how someone can miss the literal
             | definition within the sentence. "Munro, as the Scottish
             | mountains above 3,000 feet are known". Is that difficult
             | for you to read and understand?
        
             | LorenPechtel wrote:
             | I hike but I'm not a peak bagger. But the first time I
             | encountered the term I found it completely obvious what it
             | meant.
             | 
             | Having only spent a few days of my life in Scotland I
             | didn't know "Munro" but the article defined it.
        
         | hluska wrote:
         | They introduce Charlie Kelly the previous paragraph, explain
         | what a Munro is right after that and use quotes around "bag".
         | What else could you expect? "Bag" is extremely common in many
         | industries and they defined both other different terms.
         | 
         | You just ripped on an editor for absolutely no reason.
        
         | daemonologist wrote:
         | The word to "bag" may be more _common_ in this context but it
         | 's not exclusive to it nor very uncommon, at least in North
         | America. You might say "they bagged a record in the 4x400m
         | relay" or "we bagged the contract" or another form like "that
         | objective is in the bag." I think it's etymologically derived
         | from hunting (literally putting game in a bag) but at this
         | point it's just a word.
        
       | pgraf wrote:
       | I don't see any hint of AI being used here, but rather a
       | handcrafted computer vision algorithm. Can anyone more involved
       | in the matter elaborate if there was an actual AI model used?
        
         | yifanl wrote:
         | We don't have a formal classification of which technologies can
         | be considered "AI", but computer vision would feel like a valid
         | entrant to me.
        
           | nostrademons wrote:
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
        
             | keybored wrote:
             | I thought that AGI covered that. AGI to my mind doesn't
             | have to surpass human thinking. It just has to be
             | categorically the same as it (it can be less powerful, or
             | more). It has to be general. A chess machine in a box which
             | can't do anything else is not general.[1]
             | 
             | I've always been fine with calling things AI even though
             | they are all jumbles of stats nonsense that wouldn't be
             | able to put their own pants on. _Does a submarine swim?_
             | No, but that's just the metaphor that the most vocal
             | adherents are wedded to (at the hips). The metaphor doesn't
             | harm me. And to argue against it is like Chomsky trying to
             | tell programming language designers that programming
             | languages being _languages_ is just a metaphor.
             | 
             | [1] EDIT: In other words it can be on the level of a crow.
             | Or a dog. Just something general. Something that has some
             | animalistic-like intelligence.
        
               | nostrademons wrote:
               | I think the point of the Wikipedia article is that _human
               | categories are flexible, and they get redefined to suit
               | human ego needs_ regardless of what 's happening in the
               | objective outside world.
               | 
               | Say that you have a closed system that largely operates
               | without human intervention - for example, the current ad
               | fraud mess where you have bots pretending to be humans
               | that don't actually exist to inflate ad counts, all of
               | which gets ranked higher by the ML ad models because it
               | inflates their engagement numbers, but it's all to sell
               | products that don't really work anyway so that the
               | company can post better revenue numbers to Wall Street
               | and unload the shares on prop trading bots and index
               | funds that are all investing algorithmically anyway. On
               | some level, this is a form of "intelligence" even though
               | it doesn't put pants on. For that matter, many human
               | societies don't put pants on, nor do my not-quite-
               | socialized preschool kids. It's only _the weight of our
               | collective upbringing_ , coupled with a desire to feel
               | intelligent, that leads us to equate putting pants on
               | with intelligence. Plenty of people don't put pants on
               | and consider themselves intelligent as well. And the
               | complexity of what computers actually _do_ do is often
               | well beyond the complexity of what humans do.
               | 
               | I often like to flip the concept of "artificial
               | intelligence" on its head and instead think about
               | "natural stupidity". Sure, the hot AI technologies of the
               | moment are basically just massive matrix computations
               | that statistically predict what's likely to come next
               | given all the training data they've seen before. Humans
               | are also basically just massive neural networks that
               | respond to stimulus and reward given all the training
               | data they've seen before. You can make very useful
               | predictions about, say, what is going to get a human to
               | click on a link or open their wallet using these AI
               | technologies. And since we too are relatively predictable
               | human machines that are focused on material wealth and
               | having enough money to get others to satisfy our
               | emotions, this is a very useful asset to have.
        
               | keybored wrote:
               | > I think the point of the Wikipedia article is that
               | human categories are flexible, and they get redefined to
               | suit human ego needs regardless of what's happening in
               | the objective outside world.
               | 
               | I know what the point is. Of course computer scientists
               | that make AI (whatever that means) want to be known for
               | making Intelligence. And they get cross when the marvel
               | of yesterday becomes a humdrum utility.
               | 
               | As you can see this part cuts both ways:
               | 
               | > > and they get redefined to suit human ego needs
               | 
               | > Say that you have a closed system that largely operates
               | without human intervention - for example, the current ad
               | fraud mess where you have bots pretending to be humans
               | that don't actually exist to inflate ad counts, all of
               | which gets ranked higher by the ML ad models because it
               | inflates their engagement numbers, but it's all to sell
               | products that don't really work anyway so that the
               | company can post better revenue numbers to Wall Street
               | and unload the shares on prop trading bots and index
               | funds that are all investing algorithmically anyway. On
               | some level, this is a form of "intelligence" even though
               | it doesn't put pants on. For that matter, many human
               | societies don't put pants on, nor do my not-quite-
               | socialized preschool kids. It's only the weight of our
               | collective upbringing, coupled with a desire to feel
               | intelligent, that leads us to equate putting pants on
               | with intelligence. Plenty of people don't put pants on
               | and consider themselves intelligent as well. And the
               | complexity of what computers actually do do is often well
               | beyond the complexity of what humans do.
               | 
               | I bet your AI of choice could write a thesis on how
               | putting pants on is a stupid social construct. Yet if it
               | is _incapable of doing it_ it would just be a bunch of
               | hot air.
               | 
               | > I often like to flip the concept of "artificial
               | intelligence" on its head and instead think about
               | "natural stupidity".
               | 
               | This philosophy tends to go with the territory.
               | 
               | > Sure, the hot AI technologies of the moment are
               | basically just massive matrix computations that
               | statistically predict what's likely to come next given
               | all the training data they've seen before. Humans are
               | also basically just massive neural networks that respond
               | to stimulus and reward given all the training data
               | they've seen before.
               | 
               | "Basically" doing some heavy lifting here.
               | 
               | This is obviously false. We would have gone extinct
               | pretty much immediately if we had to tediously train
               | ourselves from scratch. We have instincts as well.
               | 
               | "But that's just built-in training." Okay, now we're back
               | to it not basically being stimulus-responses to training
               | data they've seen before. So what's the point? When it's
               | not basically just that.
               | 
               | > You can make very useful predictions about, say, what
               | is going to get a human to click on a link or open their
               | wallet using these AI technologies. And since we too are
               | relatively predictable human machines that are focused on
               | material wealth and having enough money to get others to
               | satisfy our emotions, this is a very useful asset to
               | have.
               | 
               | Yes. Humans have wants and needs and act in ways
               | consistent with cause and effect. E.g. as the clueless
               | "consumer subject" against billions of dollars of
               | marketing money and AI owned by those same marketing
               | departments.
               | 
               | Amazingly: Humans are what you allow them to be.
               | 
               | We could treat all humans according to Skinner Box
               | theory. We could treat them as if Skinner's stimulus-
               | response theories are correct and only allow them to act
               | inside that framework. That would (again, amazingly)
               | confirm that Skinner was right all along.
               | 
               | Any organism can express itself maximally only in a
               | maximally free setting. A free dog is a dog; a chained
               | human might only be a dog.
               | 
               | The only difference is that humans have words that they
               | can express through their mouthholes about what kind of
               | future they want. If they want to be humans (i.e. human
               | ego needs, sigh) or if they want to be the natural
               | stupidity subjects of the artificial intelligence.
               | 
               | Or they don't care because they don't think AI will ever
               | be able to put its pants on.
        
             | mportela wrote:
             | I had heard that quote many times but never know it's
             | called "AI effect". Thanks!
        
           | A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
           | Maybe? I am currently going through 'artificial intelligence
           | modern approach' by Russel&Norvig and from historical
           | perspective alone, it seems vision would qualify.
           | 
           | It is just that the language drifted a little the way it did
           | with cyber meaning something else to post 90s kids. So now AI
           | seems to be mostly associated with llms, but not that long
           | ago, AI seemed to almost include just use to of an algorithm.
           | 
           | I am not an expert in the field at all. I am just looking at
           | stuff for personal growth.
        
           | datameta wrote:
           | Computer vision totally qualifies as AI as it can grant an
           | agent artificially intelligent behavior.
        
             | sleepybrett wrote:
             | Based on what is said in the article, it seems like a VERY
             | simple algorithm. It clusters the pixels in the image by
             | color and reports any small blobs of unusual color. That's
             | not AI by any of the stupid definitions we've come up with
             | recently.
        
               | morkalork wrote:
               | Clustering and outlier detection is not AI?
        
               | short_sells_poo wrote:
               | I mean, if something as traditional as simple clustering
               | is AI, then so is linear regression and Excel Sheets have
               | been doing AI/ML for the past 2 decades.
               | 
               | At some point we just have to stop with the breathless
               | hype. I'm sure labelling it as AI gets more clicks and
               | exposure so I know exactly why they do it. Still, it's
               | annoying.
        
               | wizzwizz4 wrote:
               | You're only saying this because we're in a hype cycle.
               | Circa 2018, there was no problem at all with calling this
               | AI: in fact, it was normal.
        
               | kjkjadksj wrote:
               | Back then we still called things image classifiers or
               | machine learning, and when you said AI most people
               | probably had an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Cortana
               | flash in their mind.
        
               | morkalork wrote:
               | Yes! AI is any sort of machine intelligence and its been
               | around for more than 2 decades, the 80s even had its own
               | "AI winter" after all.
        
               | Gud wrote:
               | There is no intelligence here, only pattern matching.
        
               | kvakerok wrote:
               | The same could be said about many people.
        
               | YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
               | At least until recently any introductory machine learning
               | course would teach linear regression and clustering, the
               | latter as an example of unsupervised learning.
        
               | LorenPechtel wrote:
               | To me the fundamental difference is that AI is trained,
               | algorithms are not. There's not training here, it's a
               | simple frequency count looking for outliers. While it's
               | an approach a human would take the human is doing it in a
               | very different fashion. And the human is much more
               | sensitive to form, this is much more sensitive to color.
               | 
               | They are definitely right that our (I am a hiker) gear
               | tends to stand out against nature. Not only is it
               | generally in colors that do not appear in any volume in
               | nature, but almost nothing in the plant and mineral
               | kingdoms is of uniform color. A blob of uniform color is
               | in all probability either a monochromatic animal (the
               | sheep their system detects) or man made.
               | 
               | What surprises me about this is that it hasn't been tried
               | before.
        
               | KolmogorovComp wrote:
               | You are confusing AI and Machine Learning, the latter
               | being a subset of the former.
        
               | kxrm wrote:
               | This really gets at one of my issues with the term "AI".
               | There is a very scientific, textbook definition of what
               | Artificial Intelligence is however, this term carries
               | baggage from sci-fi.
               | 
               | Using a term like "AI" to describe this is like using a
               | term "Food" to describe pickles. Poor analogy but "AI" is
               | just so vast that most lay readers or those not familiar
               | with this phrase in regular computer science discussions
               | aren't grounded in the consequence.
               | 
               | I feel that we as an industry need to do better and use
               | terms more responsibly and know our audience. There is a
               | big difference between a clustering algorithm that
               | detects pixels and flags them and a conscious, self-aware
               | system. However both of those things are "AI" and both
               | have very different consequences.
        
               | YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
               | This is the list of discussion topics from the Dartmouth
               | Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (1955) where the term
               | was first introduced:                 The following are
               | some aspects of the artificial intelligence problem:
               | 1 Automatic Computers            If a machine can do a
               | job, then an automatic calculator can be programmed to
               | simulate the machine. The speeds and memory capacities of
               | present computers may be insufficient to simulate many of
               | the higher functions of the human brain, but the major
               | obstacle is not lack of machine capacity, but our
               | inability to write programs taking full advantage of what
               | we have.            2. How Can a Computer be Programmed
               | to Use a Language            It may be speculated that a
               | large part of human thought consists of manipulating
               | words according to rules of reasoning and rules of
               | conjecture. From this point of view, forming a
               | generalization consists of admitting a new word and some
               | rules whereby sentences containing it imply and are
               | implied by others. This idea has never been very
               | precisely formulated nor have examples been worked out.
               | 3. Neuron Nets            How can a set of (hypothetical)
               | neurons be arranged so as to form concepts. Considerable
               | theoretical and experimental work has been done on this
               | problem by Uttley, Rashevsky and his group, Farley and
               | Clark, Pitts and McCulloch, Minsky, Rochester and
               | Holland, and others. Partial results have been obtained
               | but the problem needs more theoretical work.
               | 4. Theory of the Size of a Calculation            If we
               | are given a well-defined problem (one for which it is
               | possible to test mechanically whether or not a proposed
               | answer is a valid answer) one way of solving it is to try
               | all possible answers in order. This method is
               | inefficient, and to exclude it one must have some
               | criterion for efficiency of calculation. Some
               | consideration will show that to get a measure of the
               | efficiency of a calculation it is necessary to have on
               | hand a method of measuring the complexity of calculating
               | devices which in turn can be done if one has a theory of
               | the complexity of functions. Some partial results on this
               | problem have been obtained by Shannon, and also by
               | McCarthy.            5. Self-lmprovement
               | Probably a truly intelligent machine will carry out
               | activities which may best be described as self-
               | improvement. Some schemes for doing this have been
               | proposed and are worth further study. It seems likely
               | that this question can be studied abstractly as well.
               | 6. Abstractions            A number of types of
               | ``abstraction'' can be distinctly defined and several
               | others less distinctly. A direct attempt to classify
               | these and to describe machine methods of forming
               | abstractions from sensory and other data would seem
               | worthwhile.            7. Randomness and Creativity
               | A fairly attractive and yet clearly incomplete conjecture
               | is that the difference between creative thinking and
               | unimaginative competent thinking lies in the injection of
               | a some randomness. The randomness must be guided by
               | intuition to be efficient. In other words, the educated
               | guess or the hunch include controlled randomness in
               | otherwise orderly thinking.
               | 
               | From:
               | 
               | https://web.archive.org/web/20070826230310/http://www-
               | formal...
               | 
               | So, no, the fundamental difference is not that "AI is
               | trained, algorithms are not". Some hand-crafted
               | algorithms fall under the purview of AI research. A
               | modern example is graph-search algorithms like MCTS or
               | A*.
        
           | IshKebab wrote:
           | No, even before the current AI era classical computer vision
           | was not considered to be "AI"... because it isn't. That's
           | just a fact.
        
           | gamblor956 wrote:
           | Computer vision is a field of AI. But this is just an
           | algorithm without any sort of learning or training process.
        
             | sangnoir wrote:
             | ML =/= AI.
             | 
             | Machine learning was widely considered to be a subset of
             | AI, until it got a big resurgence almost 2 decades ago. Now
             | some people use the terms interchangeably.
        
           | godelski wrote:
           | I thought AI meant "ML" + marketing.
           | 
           | I joke, but not. I'm a researcher and AI has been a pretty
           | ambiguous term for years, mostly because intelligence is
           | still not well defined. Unfortunately I think it's becoming
           | less well defined in the last few years (while prior to that
           | was getting better defined) via the (Fox) Mulder Effect.
        
           | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
           | I think at one time, a mechanical calculator would have been
           | considered AI
        
         | moffkalast wrote:
         | Deep learning is just a subset of AI which has officially been
         | a thing since 1956. A chess algorithm is smarter than any human
         | yet it's just classical search.
        
           | ithkuil wrote:
           | It's just that the "AI" word is no longer taboo
        
         | snapcaster wrote:
         | I'm so tired of this argument. AI is a blurry term as it's used
         | in the world. Who the fuck cares if this is "officially AI" or
         | not? Can we just stop having this discussion?
        
       | idunnoman1222 wrote:
       | It's a long article and I'm on mobile. Do they link the code or
       | not?
        
         | schiffern wrote:
         | "MRMap is free for use by Mountain Rescue Teams. While being
         | free it is NOT open source."
         | http://www.mrmap.org.uk/index.php/introduction
         | 
         | Relevant changelogs are 6.0a and 6.0b.
         | http://mrmap.org.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=24
        
       | vzaliva wrote:
       | Satellite SOS, recently introduced in iPhone and Google Pixel
       | phones, will help a lot with lost hiker cases. However, drone-
       | based search will still be useful in case the hiker broke the
       | phone or is too incapacitated to use it.
        
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