Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously
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DO YOU WANT FOOD PRICES TO GO DOWN
BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET FOOD PRICES DOWN
WELCOME THE AI OVERLORDS, ALL YE UNFAITHFUL
BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET FOOD PRICES DOWN
WELCOME THE AI OVERLORDS, ALL YE UNFAITHFUL
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Hm. With some more refinement this could eliminate the need for a lot of itinerant farm workers. Take that as you will.
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With time, this technology can bring farming back to areas where it has dwindled.
Essentially, create a new need for them to manage their own farms closer to home.
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I'm thinking the "5G Onion" branding wouldn't fly so well around some paranoid factions of US society... 
Then again, in a bit or recursive irony, maybe The Onion should do a bit on just that...
Then again, in a bit or recursive irony, maybe The Onion should do a bit on just that...
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Mungus the Unhyphenated
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Anything they can get away with.
Actually, see my comment above. They can fan the conspiracy theorists' flames about "5G Onions" and AI taking over...
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Someone please miniaturize this for the backyard gardener and get it down to a couple hundred bucks and I’m in.
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And if you've ever picked vegetables or fruits for ten hours a day, you'd be happy with this change too. I think this is a great advance, WEED-GPT
A perfect fit for the LLAMA model, it just eats weeds!
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Similar concept but without the robot fingers - James Cook Uni and Sugar Research Australia.
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Nothing as Bayer bought them 5 years ago and retired the name.
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I mean eating weeds and putting even the low paid migrant workers out of a job is one thing... but if WEED-GPT could instead use AI to grow me some weed then I'd be impressed.And if you've ever picked vegetables or fruits for ten hours a day, you'd be happy with this change too. I think this is a great advance, WEED-GPT
A perfect fit for the LLAMA model, it just eats weeds!
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If you had seen what cat vomit does to iRobot, you would realize that this would be a very long row to hoe.
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I was going to say, if you can make this fit in and around my landscaping, fucking sign me up.
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Also a lot fewer cases of food contamination.DO YOU WANT FOOD PRICES TO GO DOWN
BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET FOOD PRICES DOWN
WELCOME THE AI OVERLORDS, ALL YE UNFAITHFUL
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I laughed at the video of the onions with the "5G" sticker on them. If they ever ended up in American supermarkets some tin foil hat types would go apeshit in the produce section.
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A roommate and I made that in college. It was, uh, wildly fucking productive.
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Primary objective: kill all that is harmful to the growing of crops.
What could go wrog?
What could go wrog?
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Uh, in Europe they've been torching 5g towers in conspiracy driven arson attacks, haven't heard of any of the US nutters going that far.
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A lot of migrant farm workers don't own land of their own. Or they 'own' it but drug cartels, govt cronyism, etc has rendered it unlivable. If this device renders them unemployed, it is something we need to have a plan to deal with.
That said, I hope this thing works. Anything that decreases the need for chemical herbicides is good. Several weeds have evolved to be resistant and need either a new chemical or more of the old one.
If these get deployed, wonder how long before weeds evolve to look more like onions?
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Its going to be a rough ride, but we will eventually get to the point where we have robots doing all the hard yakker and the rest of us doing things we want to.
But Capitalism as we know it will have to change vastly to achieve it. Current systems won't work if the majority of the population can't afford to live. We know where that ends... Nom nom noming on the rich.
But Capitalism as we know it will have to change vastly to achieve it. Current systems won't work if the majority of the population can't afford to live. We know where that ends... Nom nom noming on the rich.
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There was a really cool DIY one on hackaday which used a fresnel lens to concentrate sunlight.
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Or just switch to square foot raised bed gardening, and largely never worry about weeds again.
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This sounds familiar, like I've heard it from some corporation mouthpiece before, was it car the car manufacturers, big pharma/healthcare, retailers, cell provider...DO YOU WANT FOOD PRICES TO GO DOWN
BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET FOOD PRICES DOWN
WELCOME THE AI OVERLORDS, ALL YE UNFAITHFUL
probably from all the above and more. It would be nice if prices go down for food and everything else that has been increasing. I just don't see that happening in today's world, not without having greedy people/corporations change their ways... very unlikely. What we'll most likely get is we'll pay less for less. Like a box of Cheez-It used to be 14.5oz, now 12.5oz.
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Well they can pay extra for non-5G onions reducing the amount they can influence other facets of society with their money.I'm thinking the "5G Onion" branding wouldn't fly so well around some paranoid factions of US society...
Then again, in a bit or recursive irony, maybe The Onion should do a bit on just that...
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Ukraine needs something like this for Russian minefields. Trundle along on big soft wheels that won't trigger mines, identify mines by complementary techniques, and deposit a small delayed action explosive charge on top of each mine.
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All they need to do is figure out a way to turn the weeds to biofuel and it could run forever! (or more likely, for 2 minutes longer than it currently does).
Sometimes I forget that AI is actually a really cool research field as well as being the 2023 fad topic.
Sometimes I forget that AI is actually a really cool research field as well as being the 2023 fad topic.
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Oh Really?
A women opens fire at cell tower workers in N.C. from a .22 revolver, because she was hearing voices.
Somebody broke into a cellphone tower ground station in Fairview, West Virginia, severing the tower’s main power cable and removing the primary and backup generator batteries.
An unknown individual is said to have sneaked into a cell tower site in Tennessee on December 19, 2020, by cutting open its perimeter fence. The individual then severed the site’s fiber-optic cables and damaged several other telecommunications components.
“Since December 2019, unidentified actors conducted at least five arson incidents targeting cell towers in Memphis, Tenn., that resulted in more than $100,000 in damages,” the DHS reports say. “Additionally, 14 cell towers in western Tennessee, between February and April, were purposely turned off by way of disabling their electrical breakers," according to separate DHS field intelligence reporting. In April, arsonists set fire to a major cell tower in Portland, Ore., damaging electrical components at the base of the structure.”
And that's only from DHS and FBI reports dating back to 2020‑2021...
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I want one.
Or stow them for composting!
I agree, they've got a tough row to hoe.
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Brilliant use of AI. Couple this with the bug killing laser system and run it at the same time for efficiency and you have a real winner. In truth just about anything that takes money from Monsanto is a win in my opinion. Maybe we can go back to seeds that are not genetically altered to not die from poisons so they can dump extra poisons on them then act like we are not all eating poison. So many wins here.
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Also Swarm Farm which also currently uses controlled sprays of herbicides. These systems could be deployed with different 'payloads', e.g. microwave is another technique. I wonder what the longer term performance of a robotic cultivator would be in terms of wear and tear.
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Hmm. I’m hoping they also have sprinkler systems to put out any fires they start.
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The first horror movie where someone gets....weeded will be entertaining.
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