Re:Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines
by bayesianhorse on Saturday May 17, 2014 @03:48PM
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Rats (and dogs) still seem to be "state of the art" in the detection of chemicals.
Both the rats and the dogs scale very poorly, though. Maybe training rats via AI would improve that? Human labor in Africa is cheap, so automation doesn't really save wages, but it could improve how much you know about the reliability of the rats, and thus you could train more numerous and more reliable rats.
Both the rats and the dogs scale very poorly, though. Maybe training rats via AI would improve that? Human labor in Africa is cheap, so automation doesn't really save wages, but it could improve how much you know about the reliability of the rats, and thus you could train more numerous and more reliable rats.