A California city San Jose is training AI to spot homeless encampments and lived-in vehicles

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"For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize tents and cars with people living inside in what experts believe is the first experiment of its kind in the United States. ...

City employees are driving a single camera-equipped vehicle through sections of district 10 “every couple weeks”, said Khaled Tawfik, director of the San Jose information technology department. The city sends the training footage to participating companies, which include Ash Sensors, Sensen.AI, Xloop Digital, Blue Dome Technologies and CityRover. ..."

"San Jose, at the heart of Silicon Valley, is training AI to detect homeless encampments and lived-in vehicles, aiming to address complaints more efficiently, but concerns arise about privacy violations and the potential for further crackdowns on unhoused individuals."

Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment

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