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I never knew we had this many fish swimming by until this camera perplexed me.
My boat was moored 30 meters away.
My ISP offices where a little further upstream.
2000 Years ago the city of Utrecht grew around this river branch, now called the Kromme Rijn/Vecht but originally it was the main river Rhine. It started out as a Roman frontier fort at the river crossing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kromme_Rijn
The Oude Gracht is the second most famous canal monument in the Netherlands after the Amsterdam canal system.
Actually this canal used to be a stinking city sewer and was less murky green than fecal brown for most of its 2000 year existence.
The fish came back when the sewage was removed in the last 35 years. The green color is from the healthy algal soup.
The stench in the summer was so bad that for hundreds of years the rich build beautiful country houses and castles in the woods east of the town.
https://www-quest-nl.translate.goog/maatschappij/geschiedeni...
Seriously, though, I love a nice green algae for some good old oxygen.
I just saw some all along the shore of a small tributary at a local park that had tons of little (but not tiny) bubbles all over it. I thought it might be oxygen.
Such a lovely florescent lime green.
Quite probably oxygen from the plants and not methane bubbles.
>small tributary at a local park
Quite probably where I was a boy scout and had my first kiss
Of course, not getting snagged on something is a problem, as is losing power, as is murkiness, but I'm not gonna build the thing -- I just want to use it.
I wanna see what's/who's down there!
Maybe some one-shot object detection model would work even without fine-tuning?
I don't think solving the problem is the goal, it's attracting attention while solving the problem, which is a different goal
"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do laundry and dishes."
This thing is whimsy and fun, it's not a chore to be automated away.
It appears to me that far from enhancing these moments, in general the internet has inhibited them. The focus of our current internet is Me. Instagram where you can show people how beautiful you are. Facebook, where the important thing is what you like. And who you follow. Me. Me. Me.
So it seems natural that the "next big thing" is something that will make the internet even less hospitable for a sense of community - for the We. No doorbell, just an AI.
But maybe that is a good thing? This internet with all the tracking and lack of civility can become just a place where AI's can spend hours tracking and targeting other AI's. Far out!
We can build something else.
JCR Licklider initially called it the intergalactic network, now know as the internet.
>We can build something else
Some of us tried (with internet fish swimming around) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U
We could use some Complex Adaptive System architecture to create galaxies. Or we could call them Gestalts instead of CAS.
In gestalts entities, use rules to interact with a read/write message bus.
Ants. Pheromone trails. Write when you find food, not if you don't.
We have the pieces for this. Entities - people. We have a r/w bus - the internet. What we don't have are rules. We can think of rules - the kind Wolfram talks about in NKofS - instead as a language. A language in the sense of Sapir-Whorf. "Twitter and Tear Gas" (Zeynep Tufecki) is a good illustration of Sapir-Whorf in internet languages. (Available as a pdf I think)
That language is the missing link. In Real Life there is a language for collaboration. Perhaps the task is to understand the elements of IRL collaboration and then transpose it.
One could make some guesses about fundamentals. As we have all discovered, one fundamental is trust. IRL Trust is identity and reputation based. With many caveats. Perhaps we could start by considering A New Kind of Identity. ?
$0 basically.
You can fine tune a YOLO model on a work station in an hour or so.