Confused AI miscounts tourists at Giant’s Causeway after mistaking rock columns for people
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Giant’s Causeway features roughly 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, formed by intense volcanic activity and rapidly cooling lava approximately 50 to 60 million years ago (Image: James Wormald)
The object detection model that used aerial drone imagery was trained on the wrong kind of footage, say project organisers

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