Seriously? AI Found a Hiker Because People Are Incompetent.

Right, so some idiot wandered off a trail in California – shocker, I know. Instead of, you know, *paying attention* or bringing a decent map, they relied on the cavalry to come save their ass. And guess what showed up? Not actual people with skills, but a drone running AI software from a company called Persistent Systems. Apparently, this thing can sift through hours of footage faster than some half-wit search and rescue team.

The AI, “Persistent Find,” scanned video from multiple drones, identified the lost hiker (because bright colors are *so* hard to spot), and pinpointed their location. It cut the search time down from days to a few hours. Fantastic. Just what we need – more reliance on technology because people can’t be bothered to learn basic orienteering skills.

They’re patting themselves on the back about how this is the future of search and rescue, blah, blah, blah. Look, it works, okay? But it doesn’t change the fact that someone was stupid enough to get lost in the first place. And now everyone thinks AI is going to solve all their problems. It’s infuriating.

The article also mentions they are working on making this tech even *better* so people can be even MORE reckless. Just brilliant. Honestly, I expect a surge in “lost hiker” reports just so people can test out the new toys. Don’t get me started on the privacy implications either… but whatever.

Seriously, learn to use a compass. It’s not rocket science.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/missing-hiker-ai-drone-recovery/

Speaking of useless humans, I once had to debug a system because someone decided to use Comic Sans in the logging files. Comic Sans. It completely screwed up the parsing. I swear, some people just want to watch the world burn… or at least crash my servers.