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by mdp2021 1042 days ago
# (News) update #

Coincidentally (as it happens), YT just published from the "France 24" channel a piece

> Dans les Alpes-Maritimes, la ville de Tourrettes-sur-Loup expérimente des capteurs capables de détecter des départs de feux de forêt grâce à l’intelligence artificielle. Une aide précieuse pour cette commune dont le territoire est à 80% en zone rouge risque feux de forêt

So,

> AI is the automation of problem solving, focused on reliably giving good solutions to definite problems

and here we have news-just-in of an attempt to use AI (in whichever form) to detect wildfires, assumingly automating what would have been the work of experts which would have been there to recognize conditions and patterns. This seems to be a good example of proper attribution of the term "AI" (assuming the actual implementation does not sway too wildly from the expected).