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prepend ◴[] No.41897599[source]
My kids’ school added a new weapons scanner as kids walk in the door. It’s powered by “AI.” They trust the AI quite a bit.

However, the AI identifies the school issued Lenovo laptops as weapons. So every kid was flagged. Rather than stopping using such a stupid tool, they just have the kids remove their laptops before going through the scanner.

I expect not smart enough people are buying “AI” products and trusting them to do the things they want them to do, but don’t work.

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closewith ◴[] No.41901375[source]
Reading this comment, it sounds to me that you live in a dystopian nightmare.
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immibis[dead post] ◴[] No.41901723[source]
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briandear ◴[] No.41901942[source]
“Regularly” is not a particularly accurate word.

50 million K12 students in the U.S. — how many mass murders are “regular?”

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sqeaky ◴[] No.41902085[source]
More than once a week not quite once a day.

Rather than trying to diminish something that's completely preventable and abhorrent maybe we could discuss ways to actually prevent it. Because this isn't a problem anywhere else so clearly it's preventable.

If AI can be part of a solution here this is a reasonable place to discuss it.

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bigstrat2003 ◴[] No.41902129[source]
Nobody said we shouldn't try to solve the problem. But the first step is accurately describing the problem to be solved. Something that occurs once a year across the entire country has very different solutions than something which occurs once a week in every county.
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1. hnlmorg ◴[] No.41903068[source]
The problem is already well defined as regular school shootings. I don’t think redescribing the problem helps anyone apart from the NRA.
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2. sqeaky ◴[] No.41946709[source]
Yeah, sadly we already know the solution, ban or heavily restrict guns.

Every place with more guns has more shootings. It is so simple it seems almost tautological. Yet somehow this very simple fact is controversial.