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I'm pretty sure so-called no-kill shelters don't outsource their killing by simply refusing less adoptable animals. And if this contest were advertised as "help
by endorphone 7y ago
I'm pretty sure so-called no-kill shelters don't outsource their killing by simply refusing less adoptable animals. And if this contest were advertised as "help us decide which animals to kill first" it probably wouldn't gain traction.
This contest sounds ridiculous. It sounds like an attempt to get in on that AI gravy but do so with some sort of feel-good element. Only there is no feel good to it, and the basic premise seems outlandish.
- hcknwscommenter 7y agoI mean, isn't this "outsourcing the killing" a given? No-kill shelters simply don't have infinite resources. Some animals are simply not adoptable.
- kaikai 7y ago> I'm pretty sure so-called no-kill shelters don't outsource their killing by simply refusing less adoptable animals. They do, though. That's how they are able to limit the number of animals they have at any given time.
- endorphone 7y agoThey limit the number of animals they have at any given time by not taking in more when they are at capacity. This is very different from running a DNN model on every applicant and refusing to intake those that aren't adoptable enough, which is a preposterous concept. And just to provide the full picture, most no-kill shelters of course have scenarios where they euthanize -- violent animals, sick animals, etc -- but they don't need a neural network to accomplish this. This is all neither here nor there, as the contest had positively nothing to do with any of this. Instead they wanted to determine the most adoptable traits so they could adjust the less adoptable traits with the more adoptable traits: The poodle goes through the hair straightener and gets a blonde hair color treatment (clearly I am being satirical) to make it more like a lab, for instance.