High Schooler Invents an A.I.-Powered Trap That Zaps Invasive Lanternflies
High Schooler Invents an A.I.-Powered Trap That Zaps Invasive Lanternflies
Using solar power, machine learning and her family’s patio umbrella, 18-year-old Selina Zhang created a synthetic tree that lures the destructive species
This is good - very good. I hope she manages to take off with this and doesn't get crushed and screwed over by corporate greed and the government in general.
what a nice read, this lady really put in the effort it sounds like.
also:
As an award-winning violin player who has performed at Carnegie Hall and a member of the Science Bowl and USA Biology Olympiad at North Hunterdon High School, Zhang has no shortage of talent and ideas.
wow!
FFS, and here's me celebrating the fact I can tie my own shoes.
I agree with the other comments, great work.
Unfortunately, they just had to cram AI into the headlines as the latest buzzword in an effort to potentially paint Selina Zhang as a young prodigy.
The AI part really is the least interesting bit - reading their published paper, they trained a YOLO network on self collected images.
What impressed me more was the overall (scientific) approach, the application of knowledge from various domains (i. e. using an ultrasonic diffuser to attract lanternbugs, some EE work for the "zapper net", plus the programming / AI part, still) and the sheer perseverance of doing actual science and publishing a proper paper.
I have personally reviewed papers for journals and conferences where the authors clearly displayed less rigor.
The fuckin wings on that shirt lol
It's about flying bugs with wings after all.
I love her video. And when it suddenly goes into her comic, lol
Inspired by dance-dance-revolution, but where's the dancing??
It didn't say anything about the camera system. I was curious about that. Didn't spot one in the photos, but maybe I missed it.