@itsolelehmann: this is the most based AI use case i've ever seen: Singapore is using AI to extinct its mosquito population. the goal i…

this is the most based AI use case i've ever seen: Singapore is using AI to extinct its mosquito population. the goal is to eliminate the intense dengue outbreaks it faces every year. and ironically, they're doing it by breeding and releasing 10 million+ extra mosquitoes every week lol 1. Google’s Debug mosquito factory breeds millions of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying a bacterium called Wolbachia. it makes a male’s sperm incompatible with a wild female’s eggs, so when they mate, she lays eggs that never hatch. 2. breeding produces both males and females. AI cameras inspect them at high speed and separate the sexes because the facility only wants to release males. males don’t bite, while females are the ones that bite and spread dengue. 3. even high-speed sorting can miss a few females. so the sorted batch gets low-dose X-rays, which sterilize any female that slipped through while leaving the males able to mate. 4. vans drive through neighborhoods across Singapore, releasing millions of these males as they go. 5. the released males compete with wild males for mates. whenever one mates with a wild female, her eggs never hatch, removing an entire batch of mosquitoes from the next generation. so they’re basically mass-sterilizing the population. fewer eggs hatch, fewer mosquitoes are born, and the population shrinks with every generation. and it’s already working. > a major trial found that dengue risk was 71–72% lower in neighborhoods using the program > in the most successful areas, the targeted mosquito population has fallen by 98% > Singapore is now expanding the program to reach roughly half the country Lee Kuan Yew would be proud.