And given some on-board weapons, we would never have to worry about civil unrest again. Only people grateful for the food and job they are allowed to be in our society. Utopia!
All new technology will have some deviant use case associated with it. The internet is one of the worst enablers of child pornography, human trafficking and everything disgusting with the world. However it just means you try and control the use of technology not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Also useful if you're just looking to get the video stream to your laptop/computer.
There's some mention at the end of the article on how to attach a PC to the drone, but basically it would be the same thing: just run the processing on a PC.
Just by the title, I was expecting a clever way to run a pre-trained model directly on a drone.
Data for training such models for practical use are difficult to get. Often, one has to train a model on a different but related dataset that contains your object of interest and ensure that your model generalizes well. These models are highly sensitive to the data that they are trained on, so it is best if you can gather data which is closer to the actual environment (in which you want to use the model).