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Have seen demos where garbage sorting has been automated. No AI necessary. Just had cameras, visual detection, some compressed air nozzles, and millisecond (na
by xyst 2y ago
Have seen demos where garbage sorting has been automated. No AI necessary.
Just had cameras, visual detection, some compressed air nozzles, and millisecond (nanosecond?) reaction time to separate the non-recyclable materials.
- omneity 2y agoIt's funny that we are at a point where "visual detection" is not considered AI anymore.
- thrdbndndn 2y agoSome (most?) of these aren't really AI-based at all. For example. traditional optical sorters typically rely on the reflectivity of materials at one or a few laser wavelengths directed onto the material. The mapping between sensor signals and material types is usually hardcoded from laboratory test results.
- devmor 2y agoUsing AI for image recognition is to visual detection as Orange Juice is to beverages.
- ithkuil 2y agoSure. What they will call AI [an unspecified number of years in the future] will be compared similarly the the SOTA AI models. For long time the term "artificial intelligence" has just gone out of favour, but I do remember the days where a good AI research lab had a bunch of symbolics lisp machines
- devmor 2y agoI mean that we have visual recognition systems that do not use any kind of machine learning whatsoever and those are the majority of systems in use at industrial scale. Laser interferometry and DCT image distance, primarily.
- genewitch 2y agoHaha I just came up with that off the hip (never heard of, seen, or even contemplated sorting garbage before) because the idea that this needs articulation and graspers is the height of "we're VC funded and don't care about anything except runway". Laughable.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoAbout 199x, Dortmund, Germany... Lead to nothing. At least not at the time. AFAIK the initial garbage stream is still manually inspected and separated at most sites. And the people doing that have a much higher risk of getting sick, because of all sorts of bacteria, mold, spores, chemicals, VOC, whatever. Not to mention the stink.