• ashashlondon@alien.topB
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      11 months ago

      I guess it must be programmed to recognise what a weed looks like to be able to identify it against what isn’t. Is that AI? I have no idea. Seems like everything at the moment is AI.

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        11 months ago

        Laser weeder’s have been doing this for years. I don’t think AI has anything to do with it other than a marketing buzz words

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        11 months ago

        Most likely it is programmed to if the specific crop at all stages of development and eliminate everything else.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, I say NOT AI.

        I mean, pattern matching has been a thing for a long time, and getting more and more sophisticated, but slapping an AI label on a (albeit new and interesting) robot tractor seems unnecessary, and degrades the meaning of the term.

        And don’t get me started on calling their crop ‘5G Onions’!

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          11 months ago

          Even pre defined parameters can be identified and set using an AI model. In fact I believe this is more likely than installing the AI model on the weed plucking device.

          So yes AI. No, not an active AI model thinking while weeding.

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      11 months ago

      Since a sophisticated program in that case would be considerably harder to implement than a machine learning approach (what people generally mean when talking about AI): very likely AI

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      11 months ago

      “AI is everything a computer is bad at. The moment a computer can do it it’s no longer AI. That way there’s never any progress in AI.” … really old adage in computer science.

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      11 months ago

      Guided by a fridge actually… everyone’s been so fixated with AI that we haven’t noticed how much smarter “smart” appliances have gotten.

      My washer just did my taxes!