• Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    That’s a great example of what machine learning is good for - practical, focused application where you only care about the general accuracy, and a miss or two aren’t a big deal.

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      2 months ago

      Also a good use case for a government-developed app. They have the most up to date access to satellite photos (likely already paid for other departments to use, too) and a desire to make their fisherman more efficient.

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          2 months ago

          You are looking at this with a bias of “too much fishing is bad”, but this could also be looked at as a boat will need to spend less time in the water to reach their quota which means less pollution in the ocean and less harmful noise exposure to underwater life.

          Technology is neutral, how’s it’s used is ethics.