I suspect that the built in AI is just a replacement for the external CPAI system, as it was only just released and there is no documentation any thoughts would be nothing more than speculation!
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Exactly. I have not seen where AI will do anything particularly awesome for me and my 9 cameras around my house. I am certainly open to hearing what the benefits are if someone can enlighten me.
I just looked as far as the change log and there was no entry
So before I try to write a novel on the subject, what are you trying to detect and do you get a lot of false alarms!
I started with cpai and it did a decent job of filtering out the triggers from BI (that was set to trigger on evereything). It did eliminate most false triggers (rain, snow, wind, small animals, sun/shade changes) and alert me to people, cars, and animals (I fight the deer problem!)
Then when new firmware arrived (thanks Andy) that let IVS do the same work for the same cars, people, and animals, I stopped CPAI and let the built in IVS and Onvif handle alerts, and it does a great job, at way less of a lift than cpai. So now with BI v6 offering built in AI, I'm wondering if that will be something useful for my situation or not. I'm ok with the extra setup if it does more than the IVS does (not sure what that would be though!)
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I would only ever contemplate using AI if my cams don’t support something like IVS. For me with my Dahua camera IVS just works come rain or shine so I’ll carry on using it.
That was what I was thinking. (and I dd have it enabled yesterday just to see, and it alerted ok during the day...but missed all alerts at night (car driving up driveway). Not sure I had it set up right, but still, as Wittaj said, "If it ain't broke..." So IVS it is.
I'm not sure if i am the only one, but i had BI 5.9 running without any issues on a clean windows 11 out of the box install. After updating to 6.0 i had some cameras loose their connection. After installing LAN drivers from Intel the camera's worked fine again. So if you run into something similar, fresh lan drivers might fix the issue.
I have alot of wildlife where I live and enjoy watching motion events from the critters. One of the things I love about my 54IR-ZE-S3 cams is the built in animal detection. This is not available on my five 4K T cams. So, I am currently experimenting with the new built in AI from the latest Blue Iris update to see if I can include animal detection accuratly on my 4k T cams. If it works well that would be one benefit........at least for me.
I thought of another benefit of using the Blue Iris built in AI. There's always comments on how these cameras are under powered to run higher FPS and that 15 FPS is the suggested speed. Why not take even more stress off the camera and have Blue Iris AI do the detecting? I recently built a new Blue Iris PC and felt like I was hardly tapping into the new hardware. I'm happy to let Blue Iris AI do the detecing on some of my cameras. I want to use some of that 32GB of RAM!!
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Yep that's what I'm going to try. I'm currently testing a few AI things out with the camera here inside my office to get a feel for things.
My 4K-T's now detect animals. 
Cool! Now THAT would be a use for AI for me! I have a few different animals come through my yard regularly that I pick up with simple motion detection. Of course, that means rain and snow storms trigger continuously at night on those cams. How hard of a hit is the built-in AI going to do to CPU utilization? OR-- how beefy of a graphics card would I need to be efficient?