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> Asked whether his algorithms could prevent a mass shooting, van der Vorst said: “I wouldn’t claim that we could prevent a crazy loony from shooting people.”
by 0xcde4c3db 7y ago
> Asked whether his algorithms could prevent a mass shooting, van der Vorst said: “I wouldn’t claim that we could prevent a crazy loony from shooting people.”
Call me a crazy loony, but I think someone who would phrase it that way isn't on the same planet as taking the problem space seriously.
- xkcd-sucks 7y agoIt seems to be working. The sane people have stopped shooting up groups of strangers and now only the crazy loonies are left, as one can plainly see from their interviews, social media posts etc
- craftyguy 7y agoI don't think that's the point. The person in the quote probably has no idea what motivates people to do this, and they clearly have no desire to want to understand it if they're quick to dismiss them as 'crazy loonies' (hint: understanding motivation, etc is key to prevention, not "identifying all the loonies" or whatever they seem to be suggesting..)
- lonelappde 7y agoWhen were sane people shooting up schools? What makes recent shooters insane?
- rhizome 7y agoBecause taking the problem seriously isn't the point of their participation. Computer recognition of the natural world does not work without training and human confirmation/QA, and they aren't going to train each individual installation on corpuses derived from each individual school because that would eat their profits. It's all a scam, the only reason anybody's even talking to them is because they're using tax dollars as free R&D funding and calling it "progress."
- sailfast 7y agoHe’s Dutch. This statement sounds about right to me given that country’s understanding of these events, and that’s how they view them. All that said: They made the software to stop bar fights in Groningen, not to stop shootings. I don’t really understand why this is being framed as a school shooting deterrent.