Posted on 08/15/2025 11:42:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Officials in Italy used a combination of flying drones and AI software to locate the remains of a man who vanished in September
Back in September 2024, a 64-year-old climber went missing in Italy’s Cottian Alps.
In late July 2025, rescuers finally found his body, using a combination of flying drones and an advanced artificial intelligence software program, according to WIRED Italia.
Nicola Ivaldo, a doctor from Liguria, disappeared on the north face of 12,602-foot Monviso on September 14. Colleagues reported him missing when he failed to show up at work two days later, and search efforts began on September 17.
Ivaldo was an experienced mountaineer, but he was climbing alone. Monviso, which sits near the French border roughly 40 miles southwest of Turin, is a rugged, technical peak.
He also had not told his friends or family his intended route. However, before his disappearance, Ivaldo’s cell phone had connected to a cell tower north of the mountain, so rescuers believed he was attempting to climb Monviso from the north, likely via the peak’s northwest ridge.
Over the next several days, drones, sniffer dogs, and helicopters began poring across the northern and western slopes of Monviso, scouring a search area of 452 acres. But the rugged, dangerous terrain, coupled with bouts of foul weather and poor visibility—wind, rain, fog, and snow—stymied search and rescue efforts. By October 2024, early winter snows had fallen on the mountain, covering any sign of the missing climber’s body. The search for Nicola Ivaldo was called off on October 9, 2024.
For nearly a year, the missing doctor’s fate was uncertain. But in late July 2025, two drones, piloted by Italy’s National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps (CNSAS) took up the search again.
On the afternoon of July 29, 2025, the pair of drones flew over Monviso. During a span of just five hours, they documented almost every inch of the 452-acre search area, taking roughly 2,600 high-definition photographs from 165 feet above the ground. Later that day, these photographs were fed through an artificial intelligence built to recognize variances in color and shape. This software was directed to analyze the photos with specific focus on any irregularities in the landscape.
Who says AI is useless?
The dead guy. It could been more punctual.
If AI is so darned sh** hot, why hasn’t it cured cancer yet?
“It could been more punctual.”
LOL...thanks for the chuckle!
How about curing the wide-open border and Wash DC Crime?
Oh, wait...we have REAL Intelligence on that now.
Now, if only we could have AI cure Democrat Stupidity and the Woke Mind Virus.
It’s a shame that stupidity can’t be tapped as an energy source. There’s an endless supply of it!
But think of all the fun scientists of the future could have had, making up things about the doctor after his corpse was finally found centuries from now.
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