[Mordisquitos]

They call it "AI", but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they've just run some basic pattern recognition on their stock of aerial GIS imagery, searching for blueish rectangles on land tagged as residential. It's probably the sort of thing that could have also been done 20 years ago or even more.

[GordonS]

I used to work for Cognizant - they are very good at using the latest hype words to bag a client, so I fully agree with you. The same story from a different source was posted a couple of days back, and I said the same, simple pattern recognition can do this just fine.

[fastball]

Google was involved so it was probably just humans solving reCAPTCHAs identifying the pools...

[kierenj]

The definition of AI is definitely broad enough to cover exactly that, though.