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At Seoul's bridge control center, AI helps stop 99% of suicide attempts (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
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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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[–] 31 points 5 months 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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 5 months 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.

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