Technology

An interesting point that I saw about a trail on one of the small, London Tube stations:

• most of the features involved a human who could come and assist or review the footage. The AI being able to flag wheelchair users was good because the station doesn't have wheelchair access with assistance.

• when they tried to make a heuristic for automatically flagging aggressing people, they found that people with the arms up tend to be aggressive. This flagging system led to the unexpected feature that if a Transport For London (TFL) staff member needed assistance (i.e. if medical assistance was necessary, or if someone was being aggressive towards them, the TFL staff member could put their arms up to bring the attention onto them.

That last one especially seems neat. It seems like the kind of use case where AI has the most power when it's used as a tool to augment human systems, rather than taking humans out of stuff.