AI Is "comically Good" at Detecting Small Earthquakes–here's Why That Matters
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AI has shown remarkable ability in detecting small earthquakes, improving detection capabilities, and this advancement has significant implications for seismology and potentially other fields; the HN discussion highlights the potential benefits and limitations of this technology.
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2. This is less "AI" and more "machine learning" which essentially is just applied statistics. It's about as "intelligent" as a digital guitar pedal.
3. FFT analysis is just as old as the field of realtime computing itself. The ML research and application is almost the easy part given the cost of GPGPU compute today.
It's cool tech, but it won't back up your "AI is a panacea" argument if you try to cite it.
Where exactly did you find this argument in anything I posted?