AI Used For Metal Detectors

[Wild Bill]

Have we reached peak detector?  Will the coil on the end of a rod become obsolete?  A cellphone App where you walk around like an urbanite staring at the screen as it scans the ground with satellite spinoff military tech?  Sounding like a car wash “25 cents”  “50 cents”  “1.26 gram gold nugget” etc etc… encompassing all knowledge of geology, geochemistry, electrical conductivity, specific gravity, coin, jewelry, relic and even trash identification?  With the woman’s voice?  Like the GTI 2500?  Do you know why a woman’s voice initially was chosen in military aircraft flight controls?  It’s because blokes were the combat pilots and studies showed that if the voice was another bloke, the pilot would hesitate because the bloke voice can be taken as a challenge!  Putting the pilot, aircraft and mission in danger when a split second decision must be made.  A big maybe with fads and the cellphone that does everything.  The likely path is a slow steady advancement in electronics but a rapid advancement in smaller lighter electronics and fabrication materials.  Perhaps a coil that does it all and earth penetrating technology that has pulse, multiple frequencies and advanced discrimination in a robust package that weighs half of today’s light weight detectors.  Maybe in another decade Neuralink where the detector/prospector KNOWS what’s in the ground before digging!  But doesn’t cost the same as a pickup truck?  I don’t know, maybe it will be so “artificially intelligent” it will detect lost bitcoins when you scan underground fiber optics.  WTF am I talking about!  Am I crazy?!  🤐🤡  Get your mind right Wild Bill!  

[Sgtfda]

The AI detector will be designed by AI. The flaw with AI today is it's human connection. 

[GotAU?]

Dear Garrett, Minelab, or whomever,

I want a basic no frills PI detector with just an on and off button that is attached via Bluetooth to an AI enabled smartphone or pad as the controller for Christmas. The phone would do all of the DSP and AI-based controls and signal interpretation for it and that will just leave this not so “I”  human as the swinger who keeps up with the narrative commands from the AI such as “swing slower” or “dig there”, and “you’re stupid”.

[Wild Bill]

Yeah we laugh and there is some humor here but also a nugget of truth in every post!  Looking at how technology is rapidly advancing now, it’s not too far reaching or even far fetched!  Look at the past. Nikola Tesla had the cellphone in theory and on the drawing board.  Radar developed during WW2 became the “Radar Oven” we now call the microwave oven.  Now ground penetrating radar.  X-Ray Fluorescence hasn’t quite replaced the assay but combined with magnetic surveys and geological mapping it all reduces time to discovery.  Recent satellite scanning technology (military spinoff) is leading to archaeological discoveries.  As crazy as this sounds, Lick Observatory back in the early 1990s hooked up the same military scanning capabilities to the Shane Telescope up on Mount Hamilton 20 miles east of San Jose, California for a “Lunar SETI” program.  It revealed what looked like artificial structures on, near and under the surface of the Moon.  I know, I had a reason to be there and was showed the control room and the images.  The look on the astronomers and computer tech’s faces was priceless.  That was AI back then!  Using our imagination and what we see so far, it might be in the realm of possibility that downsized technology in the near future might combine much of this technology into more then just a metal detector.  One that through micro electronics, spectrum scanning with metal detectors and high speed computers could provide an image with metal ID, depth, size and exactly what it is.  We’re almost there now just using radio frequencies alone.  All in a light weight package with the coil of the future being quite different than what we are accustomed to.  It having multiple technologies being utilized.  That right now would definitely be leapfrogging.  This tech already exists and then some.  Combing these systems.  Perhaps some of you on this forum who are at the cutting edge of detecting will be the first to field test these advanced machines!  Necessity being the mother of invention as long as there is a sufficient market.  I would say that there is.  

[Norvic]

Unless your hearing is buggered you probably don`t understand where I`m coming from, AI is making inroads into hearing aids and I can tell you tis pretty amazing tech as my ears from current trials are telling me. Wild Bill I`m not laughing I`m "detecting" an AI detector on the horizon.😉

[phrunt]

The benefit to hearing aids is more micro sized processing power than anything else, raising the volume of voices while lowering the volume of background noise is nothing new, being able to put it into a small package and process in real time is the development but throw the letters AI to the marketing in and it will help it sell 😉

 

[Norvic]

Like I said Phrunt unless your hearing is buggered and has been for years, you have no practical understanding of the advances that have been made over the years in such tech. AI to you may be marketing to me it`s hearing. Modern hearing aids are no longer just sound amplifiers as detectors are no longer just metal detectors. Aye I`m definitely sold on tech, keeps the weight in the pocket 😉

[TheDeepseeker]

I'm sure one day AI will get there. But currently if you type "Curvy Mature Babes" into your favorite girly site, it will come back with at least one AI generated picture of a grandma with six fingers on one hand and one eye that looks like a marble. I'm still not convinced 🤷‍♂️

[phrunt]

That's generative AI, that's the new craze taking the world by storm drawing yourself as an action figure or something or answering your questions based of an advanced version of a google search scraping sites for information.

AI only knows what's already known, the people coding detecting software are needle focused on doing the best they possibly can to make the software as effective as possible for the purpose with their signal processing/algorithms.  There is plenty of intelligence already in detector code, there has been for a long time, it's nothing new, maybe they'll put a little AI logo on a detector or something to keep people happy.