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Finally, we solved the problem of converting bird sounds into their pictures without involving human cognition. The great problem and the need had to wait for t
by zkmon 20d ago
Finally, we solved the problem of converting bird sounds into their pictures without involving human cognition. The great problem and the need had to wait for the great, ultra expensive, data-center-driven AI technology to appear on the horizon. AI is such a good technology that continue to solve many such great problems that humans desperately needed for their survival and progress. All at the a minimal cost of some effect on the climate, which may only slightly quicken the human extinction.
Puzzlingly, no animal species requires AI, which is a mystery that need to be solved by AI.
- efavdb 20d agoDo you not like AI?
- zkmon 20d agoWell, it's not a fruit or food that I can eat. It's not a shelter, It's not a fellow human or a pet. So, hard to say if I like it.
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- iambenm 20d agoHmm. The project uses BirdNET-Go, which does inference locally on a Raspberry Pi. Then it looks up the species against a set of already existing illustrations. So in this case it seems like the "ultra expensive, data-center-driven AI" is not really involved in the core loop of this project.
- zkmon 20d agoThe local inference is a product that came out of the data-center-driven AI.
- tossandthrow 20d agoWhat a shame that we get a bird ckassifier by the samle technology we use to recognize cancer and other illnesses.
- zkmon 20d agoWhat a shame that you use that excuse to offset all other evils of AI, without even having a hint of how many patients were saved by AI. Just like how oil salesmen and nukes makers say that they solve some great problem of the world.
- zzzeek 20d ago> came out of the data-center-driven should we tell them how hacker news gets onto their computer?
- zkmon 20d agoYou assume that I assume that HN doesn't require data centers?
- dansitu 20d agoThis is incorrect; the local model is a small dense neural network called BirdNET that would not have been referred to "AI" when it was published in 2021. The model outputs a bird species probability distribution and the web application displays an existing image file of the most probable bird on the screen. This is a lovely example of simple, offline, and fun project using a straightforward machine learning model.
- zkmon 20d agoOk, so why didn't this small dense model come up, say, 10 years back? Oh it needed all the AI evolution and concepts that were powered and evolved inside the data centers. But we still want to claim that it has nothing to do with the Big AI.
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- rcpt 20d agoAmazingly unhinged response to the automated bird picture frame.