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Tokyo deploys AI to detect fires, collapsed buildings for rapid quake response

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When building really collapse or fire emerge, you still need someone who can come to save and pick up you, not just an AI system.

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that’s not ai.

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What are the people of Tokyo gonna do when a Typhoon with winds of 240 kilometers per hour,and drive a 30 ft wave in Tokyo Bay,it can happen any day this summer

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The AI-driven system analyzes footage from high-resolution cameras, with two installed at the Tokyo metropolitan government building and one each at a bridge near Tokyo Bay and a location in the western part of the metropolitan area, the local authorities and system developer Hitachi Ltd. said.

119 Caller: There's a fire!

119: Please hold. *calls government agency in charge of checking AI-driven system, who conduct analysis with "AI" system, stamp a few hankos, reply via fax *

119: Yes, we've confirmed there's a fire.

119 Caller: ...

119: Hello?

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Good to see tech saving lives.

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