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So what we need is a dart with suction legs, a camera and an AI, which crawls over the outside of the car to the windshield and takes pictures of the driver :-)

by rlpb 4y ago

usefulcat 4y ago
Not to worry, skynet is already working on something better..
- syngrog66 4y ago
  I asked ChatGPT if that was true, and he denied it. He very confidently denied it.
  - LoganDark 4y ago
    "He" doesn't know anything that wasn't in the training data.
    - syngrog66 4y ago
      I made a joke.
      - LoganDark 4y ago
        indeed you did.
zizee 4y ago
Perhaps a high speed drone could do this. The trick would be to deploy something like this safely. That said, I'm not looking forward to the day where drones and AI are part of the standard kit used by police forces. The ability to cheaply surveil people clandestinely as they go about their business does not sound like a future to look forward to.
toomuchtodo 4y ago
The GPS device paired with a loitering drone or helicopter carrying a sensor pod, streaming a video stream that can play bird's eye video backwards and forwards, should be sufficient to track a suspect. DARPA was doing this with ARGUS in 2013 with a few hundred cellphone camera sensors bolted together; I would assume the state of the art has advanced in a decade. The saying used to be, "you can't outrun Motorola." The new hotness is likely "you can't outrun the surveillance tech stack." https://www.wired.com/story/cities-curb-surveillance-baltimore-police-took-air/ https://www.wired.com/story/cities-curb-surveillance-baltimo... https://www.csoonline.com/article/2223941/darpa-s-unblinking-all-seeing-1-8-gigapixel-camera-stare-on-pbs-rise-of-the-drones.html https://www.csoonline.com/article/2223941/darpa-s-unblinking... https://web.archive.org/web/20130204062029/https://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Autonomous_Real-time_Ground_Ubiquitous_Surveillance-Imaging_System_(ARGUS-IS).aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20130204062029/https://www.darpa... https://web.archive.org/web/20130226141653/http://www.darpa.mil/uploadedImages/Content/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Autonomous_Real-time_Ground/Images/full/ARGUS_Mission14_Poster_12-06-0920(rev1)%5B1%5D.JPG https://web.archive.org/web/20130226141653/http://www.darpa....
- mLuby 4y ago
  Why do you even need the tracker dart if you have a military drone overhead? Unless they pull some Baby Driver shenanigans in a tunnel, it should be easy to track a car. Might not work well in a few major cities (where they likely have camera nets anyway).
Balgair 4y ago
Even then you have the right to face your accuser in the US. IANAL but I think that you can't call an AI in for cross, nor a robot. Probably depends heavily on jurisdiction though.

So what we need is a dart with suction legs, a camera and an AI, which crawls over the outside of the car to the windshield and takes pictures of the driver :-)

by rlpb 4y ago

So what we need is a dart with suction legs, a camera and an AI, which crawls over the outside of the car to the windshield and takes pictures of the driver :-)

usefulcat 4y ago

Not to worry, skynet is already working on something better..

syngrog66 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT if that was true, and he denied it. He very confidently denied it.
- LoganDark 4y ago
  "He" doesn't know anything that wasn't in the training data.
  - syngrog66 4y ago
    I made a joke.
    - LoganDark 4y ago
      indeed you did.

zizee 4y ago

Perhaps a high speed drone could do this. The trick would be to deploy something like this safely. That said, I'm not looking forward to the day where drones and AI are part of the standard kit used by police forces. The ability to cheaply surveil people clandestinely as they go about their business does not sound like a future to look forward to.

toomuchtodo 4y ago

The GPS device paired with a loitering drone or helicopter carrying a sensor pod, streaming a video stream that can play bird's eye video backwards and forwards, should be sufficient to track a suspect. DARPA was doing this with ARGUS in 2013 with a few hundred cellphone camera sensors bolted together; I would assume the state of the art has advanced in a decade. The saying used to be, "you can't outrun Motorola." The new hotness is likely "you can't outrun the surveillance tech stack." https://www.wired.com/story/cities-curb-surveillance-baltimore-police-took-air/ https://www.wired.com/story/cities-curb-surveillance-baltimo... https://www.csoonline.com/article/2223941/darpa-s-unblinking-all-seeing-1-8-gigapixel-camera-stare-on-pbs-rise-of-the-drones.html https://www.csoonline.com/article/2223941/darpa-s-unblinking... https://web.archive.org/web/20130204062029/https://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Autonomous_Real-time_Ground_Ubiquitous_Surveillance-Imaging_System_(ARGUS-IS).aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20130204062029/https://www.darpa... https://web.archive.org/web/20130226141653/http://www.darpa.mil/uploadedImages/Content/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Autonomous_Real-time_Ground/Images/full/ARGUS_Mission14_Poster_12-06-0920(rev1)%5B1%5D.JPG https://web.archive.org/web/20130226141653/http://www.darpa....

mLuby 4y ago
Why do you even need the tracker dart if you have a military drone overhead? Unless they pull some Baby Driver shenanigans in a tunnel, it should be easy to track a car. Might not work well in a few major cities (where they likely have camera nets anyway).

Balgair 4y ago

Even then you have the right to face your accuser in the US. IANAL but I think that you can't call an AI in for cross, nor a robot. Probably depends heavily on jurisdiction though.