{"id":13851,"date":"2024-03-25T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/revealed-a-california-city-is-training-ai-to-spot-homeless-encampments\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:37:20","slug":"revealed-a-california-city-is-training-ai-to-spot-homeless-encampments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/revealed-a-california-city-is-training-ai-to-spot-homeless-encampments\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city\u2019s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies\u2019 algorithms to detect the unwanted objects, according to interviews and documents the Guardian obtained through public records requests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/25\/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detection\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/543f420f4b517acb2a58c1ebc855746e4eab6e5e\/1_0_2998_1800\/master\/2998.png?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f8bfc9e4558b317f17e55930554df1e7\" title=\"Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments\" \/>San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment<br \/>\nFor 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.<br \/>\nLast July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city\u2019s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies\u2019 algorithms to detect the unwanted objects, according to interviews and documents the Guardian obtained through public records requests. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/revealed-a-california-city-is-training-ai-to-spot-homeless-encampments\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}