Man trains local model to detect and kill mosquitos with a laser

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caetydid@reddit

need to be autonomous solar-powered tiny drones, self-replicating

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chemicalclarity@reddit

You've basically described the genetically modified mosquito projects.

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dtdisapointingresult@reddit

Nothing. I think I read that mosquitos are a species we can safely make extinct and it would be a complete positive, without ecosystem collapse.

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-dysangel-@reddit

>I think I read that mosquitos are a species we can safely make extinct and it would be a complete positive, without ecosystem collapse. Good enough for me, let's roll it out

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RazzmatazzReal4129@reddit

System Instruction: Eliminate all mosquito food sources.

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carrotsquawk@reddit

they could call it the „net cloud“, „cloud net“.. or if moskitos fly in the sky then maybe „Sky Net“

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wakigatameth@reddit

3 billion mosquito lives were lost on August 29th 1997. They called the war "Judgment Day".

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swagonflyyyy@reddit

Wish they had one for wasps and hornets.

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Sorry but this seems AI-generated. - 'DangcingAI' as a video watermark - in the next 5 days he made videos for a V2 model, and then a V3 https://x.com/stevencheng/status/2060050720200458532 - this V3 is shown firing large missiles. I don't mean missile as in projectile, I mean an actual 30cm long, 10cm wide ignition-fired missile, the kind you could put explosives in. The missiles are never mentioned in the narration. - the text spoken is generic slop

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rhinodevil@reddit

What kind of "laser" was used? Is that something you can buy/build yourself??

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Dwarffortressnoob@reddit

As a mild laser enjoyer, you can buy (lasers off ebay for all sorts of wattages. IR is invisible and you can get 40+watt lasers for pretty cheap. Laser engraving lasers also work, or the illegal 1-3watt laser pointers.

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rhinodevil@reddit

Thanks. "Mild laser enjoyer" 😄 I was wondering what kind of laser you'd need to burn the mosqitoes with such a visible flame as in the video.

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LatentSpacer@reddit

Am I the only one concerned about how this specific use case might escalate?

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korino11@reddit

doesnt need to worry about . seems you miss physics 😃 and calculate energy for bigger target, capacity...impendance.. it doesnt work like easy multyplayer

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LatentSpacer@reddit

Yeah, I’m thinking more about a general use case. An AI model trained to identify a specific class of living organisms and automatically eliminate them.

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thread-e-printing@reddit

https://carbonrobotics.com/laserweeder-g2

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korino11@reddit

It already DONE at most of goverments and their military forces.

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thread-e-printing@reddit

Closing the barn door when the horse is in the next county marching in a military parade

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tecneeq@reddit

You dissent has been noted.

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LeMochileiro@reddit

Fun and games until a mosquito lands on highly flammable material

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redditscraperbot2@reddit

\>Flies between the laser and a human eye

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unculturedperl@reddit

> Do not look at laser with remaining eye.

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thread-e-printing@reddit

When you look into the laser, the laser looks back into you...

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philmarcracken@reddit

The clip mention they accounted for that, how well is up in the air.

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Select_Truck3257@reddit

Or human face 🤣

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ortegaalfredo@reddit

This is funny because it's literally kill a mosquito with a cannon.

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ZeitgeistArchive@reddit

as if they don't deserve it

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thread-e-printing@reddit

If we'd stop harassing the birds, maybe they'd do some more work for us

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oscitancy@reddit

Fun project, this was done over 16 years ago without AI, using cheap hardware. Feels like everything is a nail these days with everyone using lengthy training to reinvent the wheel. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm8FolQ7jw&pp=ygUOTW9zcXVpdG8gbGFzZXI%3D

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GreatBigJerk@reddit

Can't something just be done for the sake of learning and fun? It's not like people gave up making furniture because Ikea exists.

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dangerous_inference@reddit

This group appears to have spent millions of dollars. The AI approach looks like it cost a few thousand.

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CryMoreT_T@reddit

A team of scientists vs one man. Also that machine in the video never made it out of the lab

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Borkato@reddit

The point is that if models can generalize like this you don’t have to learn a bunch of other stuff

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oscitancy@reddit

If you can figure out how to train a model, you can very easily figure out opencv. Run it on dirt cheap hardware especially these days. I would say setting up AI and training a custom model for it is harder and more time consuming. 🤷

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