Meet Penny, an #AI That Predicts a Neighborhood’s Wealth From Space | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/story/penny-an-ai-that-predicts-a-neighborhoods-wealth-from-space
The point isn’t to design a city, but to learn more about what AI can, and can’t, do.
Often, Penny performs intuitively. Plop a freeway or parking lot onto the Upper East Side and the AI predicts lower median income. Add some brownstones and parks to East New York and suddenly median incomes rise.
But every once in a while, Penny surprises you. Dropping the Plaza Hotel into Harlem makes Penny even more sure that it’s a low-income area. Adding trees doesn’t help, either.