Uh huh, so you keep skipping that part by stringing together buzzwords. To quote Shoreh Aghdashloo's character in the Expanse:

"or some other bunch of science words you can string together?"

You keep avoiding saying it is intelligent, much less an intelligence. You also dodge how systems, that are not AI, were used for years to do things that just get AI slapped on them now. The developers of those systems would have laughed in your face if you called the product AI.

I don't see you demonstrating it's actually Artificial INTELLIGENCE. Why? Because nothing about this is AI. Nothing about the cameras or the backend has intelligence.

Nope earlier try again.

Are you going to call the 1960's / 1970's Lizabots (the precursor for today's frontier models) AI? For me this one it would be entertaining as I've seen mimics of the systems in operation.

Do you define all fuzzy logic as AI? Oh man, this would be HILARIOUS..

Were they doing AI back in the early 1990's? I worked at a company that was building computer vision systems that could tell the difference between a human hand and a fly.

Obviously you disagree with researchers like Yann LeCun who say that LLM's are ultimately a dead end. How do you think OpenAI / Anthropic are going to overcome the shortcomings of moving beyond being a word guess engine?

Yeah and words mean nothing so simple OCR for license plates and some basic image processing software are not AI.

You're not going to claim that we've been using AI for years to do OCR and sort pictures at home, are you? In fact given that Flock is wrong (supposedly ~70% of the time) and I can verify from my own use that Ubiquiti doesn't do the best job with license plates or faces.

Did you do the heat calculation on a SINGLE compute module. Each SINGLE compute module (2U) of the upcoming Vera Rubin is 2300 watts of heat under ideal conditions. Let's be nice and make it 2,000 watts for easier maths. A rack of Vera Rubin is 18 modules (36U) totaling out 36,000 watts of heat. The ISS can dissipate about 3,000 kWh per day so you might be thinking "HEY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS!"

Ha ha ha! No. That was SPOT heat under full load of the compute cluster versus the day load of ISS heat radiation... so the actual full load day cost 4.5 to 5.2 MWh per day versus 3 MWh per day. I mean, it's only a tiny bit off, right? Well, no. That's the equivalent of adding ANOTHER cooling array. Why? You're not accounting for the cooling of what would be an even more massive solar array to power those GPUs. Yes you need to cool the solar array as well.

So basically each compute module is more than an ISS being launched into space, that has to be assembled by humans, is only good for a couple years, is vulnerable to data corruption or even permanent circuit damage due to solar storms, and is vulnerable to even a snowflake moving a ridiculous speeds.

I'm not even going to go into the solar array sizing to power this fantasy.

Tell me again how datacenters in space make sense.

They are not running an AI model on camera. That data is stored on the camera with the info, so unless they like high cell bills they didn't download it from the central system. Not that Ubiquiti doesn't sell it this way as well - but they aren't running an AI model on a camera or the gateway. All those "AI" security systems used by banks and casinos? NOT AI either folks.

The marketing flacks tell them to call it "AI" because that gets people thinking it's SOOPER HIGH TECHY TECH stuff. Basically it's because 1) We decided that acronyms and words don't have to mean anything anymore so companies just lie through their teeth and because, 2) in the words of Henry Rollins "SOME PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU TELL THEM!" Actually a disturbingly high number of the people will believe anything they are told. They're the same people who think that using rockets to replace airplanes is a viable idea.

Granted, it isn't like perpetual doom trollers OpenAI and Anthropic have developed AI.

We used to have far easier to read plates - go back to when I was nowhere near driving a car and we had black and yellow plates that lasted decades.

Capitalism has destroyed license plate durability in the name of profit.

This is why any cameras even remotely similar to this need to have a LOCAL warrant requirement. You have to run to a LOCAL judge and swear, IN PERSON, to the specifics of he case. This helps undo some of the shenanigans police have been getting away with separately for years now. Make sure data is stored, and only to be accessed, locally. This last one is a poison pill, as it would destroy Flock's business model.

Next make unauthorized access (any access without a search warrant) a felony worth a minimum of 5 years in prison. Yes, with a search warrant.

That's not an impediment at all if the case is real. During a real life emergency cops can get a search warrant so fast it isn't funny.

First: They don't think - there is no will or independence.

Second: Wow, isn't it amazing that whenever the questions start about AI that they suddenly have a new doom troll?

Third: Why are humans still programming? Dario said Claude would be programming EVERYTHING as of a few months ago.

Fourth: Where is the white collar JOBSPACOLYPSE?

Fifth:What is the ROI?

Last: Who actually believe Elon's hype anymore? This crap about "DATACENTERS IN SPPAAACCCCEEEEEE!!!!!!!" flies in the face of not just materials science but physics.

Local politics are some of the most responsive to people / voters.

Madison took out cameras, and the county took them down shortly afterward because it wasn't worth it without the others.

Watch how quickly data centers and cameras have started to become local issues. You have some people who ignore it, but more than a few have ended up recalled. One police chief was told to "Do your job instead of sitting on your butts, or are we supposed to slash department funding because the cameras do all your work." Oh you'd better believe that got that chief on the back foot.

Of course the assistance of the cameras is vastly overstated by Flock. They took credit for auto theft going down in Denver... except it had already been going down BEFORE the cameras were installed... and continued AFTER the cameras had been removed.

You're probably looking at a choice here because most systems will freak out from the noisy brute force attacks and start alerting... cue the Gary Oldman meme... EVERYONE!!!! within minutes.

One of the first things any attempt to restore democracy must do is use antitrust to destroy the near monopolies.

That's also the only way to save Capitalism from Monopolists.

The fuzziness is intentional because they don't want to be on the hook for accidents if they can possibly avoid liability.

My favorite way to pick on Tesla owners is to tell them that AutoPilot, Full Self Driving, and Full Self-Driving Supervised to not allow for ANY truly hands / attention free operation because you need to be able to take over driving in an instant. You are ALWAYS liable if the car gets into an accident.

On the flip side Mercedes Drive Pilot, under specific circumstances, actually allows you to go completely hands / attention free, and will give you a ten second warning to take over if necessary. Mercedes actually takes legal responsibility and indemnifies the driver while Drive Pilot is engaged.

Looks like Tesla doesn't believe AP or FSD is safe, almost a decade after Elon declared it would be able to drive you from West Coast to East Coast without touching the wheel.

As a pilot I'm all for automation, but we need to have the ability to disable automation completely in moments. I'm not talking about "press the button to turn it off" here. The first thing you learn about the autopilot during training is where the fuse / circuit breaker is located. Why? "So if you ever even
THINK you are fighting with the autopilot that's not showing an error you can immediately disable all functions in one simple action, lobotomizing the system.

We need the same ability so people driving a car can immediately disable any automation.

Sorry man but this is like Network Neutrality: I paid you for a product with features. Now if you want to claim you can't do it for the price offered then raise the price, stop selling the product, and/or file for bankruptcy.

This is how disastrous click-through EULA's get false justification and it's pretty much a "We are 'selling' this product to you but we can do whatever we want and if you don't like it, tough. All of our competitors are doing the exact same thing." Create hundreds of pages of legalese that no reasonable lay person can even be expected to understand, with clauses buried in clauses, and worse. So what's worse? Even when they scream and demand their contracts be honored they often fight tooth and nail against following far simpler open source requirements.

We need to stop normalizing this bull. This is dumb as bricks and should be ripped out of every single car that was subject to it... along with the unwanted telematics being reported to the mothership... or if we want to be generous having that information completely illegal to sell and treated as PII. That means just possessing things like location data become a liability instead of a possible profit center.