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Established in 2021, the center uses artificial intelligence (AI) for comprehensive emergency response, monitoring 900 CCTV cameras across 17 of Seoul's 21 pedestrian-accessible Han River bridges. Beyond suicide prevention, its most frequent task, the center also handles criminal tracking, traffic accidents and drug enforcement.

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Much of that credit goes to AI, which triggers an alarm if an object identified as a person remains for more than 300 seconds in a bridge's "loitering zones," sections where people are able to stand for extended periods.

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[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

triggers an alarm if an object identified as a person remains for more than 300 seconds in a bridge's "loitering Zones"

Is this one of those things where we're just calling everything AI? This seems like a script with machine learning object recognition, and definitely not a determination you'd want to leave up to an AI.

[–] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Still, the technology has its weaknesses. Kim said the system carries a hallucination rate of about 15 percent, including instances where it misidentifies an object as a person, which is why human judgment remains the final call.

Don't worry, they treat it as a tool, like how people treat doorbell cameras with motion detection.

[–] SirKarlSin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I guess it would be AI or machine learning specifically with OpenCV and attach it to a pre trained model. I guess that could work and slap on AI for increased price

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

machine learning is AI