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2023-03-30 Science & Technology

Schools deploy AI technology to protect against active shooters

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-30 06:59|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Haven't read the article yet but color me skeptical about AI. What is AI anyway? It's just a fancy term for computer program and it'll only be as good as the programmers who program it and the data it receives for processing. The old adage still applies: Garbage in, garbage out.

OK, so it's supposed to be highly sophisticated technology. Yeah, and the more sophisticated it aims to be, the more testing and debugging will be required to make it work. You won't be able to buy it off the shelf just yet. Don't look for it to save any children today or tomorrow. Years from now, maybe.

Old fashioned technology like fences, metal detectors and a few good teachers armed and willing to do what's necessary are still the best bet.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-30 12:06|| 2023-03-30 12:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Facial recognition is a thing, though it can be defeated a variety of ways.

The solution to school security is to lock the doors while kids are in the building.

You don't need AI for that. Garden variety human intelligence will do.

Not that there's much of that in the public education industrial complex.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-30 12:13|| 2023-03-30 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, I read the article and I'm still not convinced.

The bigger question is how a whack job, obviously unstable transvestite got his hands on a gun in the first place. Then I want to know who convinced him to shoot up a school and exactly how that was done. Call me paranoid if you will but it seems to me that something awfully sinister is happening.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-30 12:19|| 2023-03-30 12:19|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Yes, like the Uvalde shooter, let's hear what sort of income this creature had. Was it enough to buy the items used in the attack? Anyone want to own up to seeing this creature practicing use of the firearms? We are told the firearms were "purchased legally." Where? Any comment from the counterman who made the sales?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-30 12:23|| 2023-03-30 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ You can bet the FBI and ATF have top men looking into it. Top. Men.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-30 13:42|| 2023-03-30 13:42|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ so they can steer the narrative to their directed strategic goals, not to prevent further violence.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-30 14:50|| 2023-03-30 14:50|| Front Page Top

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