• pageflight@piefed.social
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    17 hours ago

    The foundation of the system is its visual model, which Cheng trained on a custom mosquito dataset. To do that, he relied on a DSLR camera with a high-magnification zoom lens, capturing detailed images of mosquitoes for training data.

    So, machine vision model. Cooler project, less clicky title.

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      14 hours ago

      vision models is what truly broke the barrier. neil degrasse tyson likes to teplace the word “ai” with the generic term “computing”. he made the point that before “ai” every advamcement in computing was just called computing. now we give this mystical reverence to this new tech and call it “ai”. whether you hype it or hate it, you give it yok much power.

      when adobe could remove an onject from a photo we said “cool tech” now its “ai”. there really are cool fun tools buy its hard yo find people online to have a down to earth conversation about them. there are people offline i talk to but it would be cool to coolaborayr more