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Wildfire detection is one of the oldest ideas in computer vision, I'm more interested in coming up with better ways to do controlled burns while handling risk f
by ceroxylon 3y ago
Wildfire detection is one of the oldest ideas in computer vision, I'm more interested in coming up with better ways to do controlled burns while handling risk factors like terrain, poison oak fumes, containment, etc.
Many healthy ecosystems in California require fire - there is no mention of what will happen post-detection but if this is just a quicker way to extinguish fires, it will be a net negative long term by increasing the fuel load even higher.
Edit: I see this now: "[. . .] as they will be quickly extinguished while still small." Putting out fires quickly is not going to help us long term. We need to develop ways to proactively burn areas safely.
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- precrimist 3y agoThat will happen once the AI system is allowed access to drones. The AI will then maintain the optimum amount of tree biomass for ecological activity while reducing negative externalities on human populations.
- ceroxylon 3y agoHow will AI + drones achieve that? Sounds like a needlessly complicated system when we already know prescribed burns work in fire dependent ecosystems: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/indigenous-fire-practices-shape-our-land.htm https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/indigenous-fire-practices-...
- precrimist 3y agoAI is much smarter than people when it comes to noticing patterns so it is inevitable that forest management will be taken over by AI and drones.