A.I. Stuff

[Terrel L. Shields]

I want to see AI castrate pigs, round up cattle, pick up the dead chickens in the chicken house, hoe the weeds in the garden, repair a leaking faucet, grade a county dirt road, find an old benchmark for the surveyor, field dress a deer, build a fence, or about 1000 other tasks.

 

[Mark K]

I want to see AI castrate pigs, round up cattle, pick up the dead chickens in the chicken house, hoe the weeds in the garden, repair a leaking faucet, grade a county dirt road, find an old benchmark for the surveyor, field dress a deer, build a fence, or about 1000 other tasks.

AI won't do those things but robots could/will do a lot of them. I wish AI and a robot was driving the county snowplows. The a-hole this year has knocked over my mailbox 3 times. The county is buying me a new one, up to $80.

40 yrs. ago you probably thought that appraisal reports would always be hand-delivered, photos would always be processed or Polaroid, reports would always be hand typed, you would always be able to talk to the LO on the phone with questions, etc.

I have a friend that used to fly for TWA, wide bodies, mostly L-1011, on long distance flights. On one flight he decided to let the autopilot land the plane in Singapore. A couple of passengers told him that was the smoothest landing they ever had. He just said 'thanks'.

It's here and it just going to continue to make our lives "better". LOL!

 

[TerryRohrer]

I want to see AI castrate pigs, round up cattle, pick up the dead chickens in the chicken house, hoe the weeds in the garden, repair a leaking faucet, grade a county dirt road, find an old benchmark for the surveyor, field dress a deer, build a fence, or about 1000 other tasks.

Ask and ye shall receive. Go through your list and you can find examples of each specific item on your wish list. The deer gutting robot will likely not be economical soon, but the rest are well underway. Note the "weeder" article below is from six years ago. Spraying drones and laser-guided sprayers have been in use for a while. Nothing money can't buy! Really, not drastically different than some of the purely mechanical means that have been devised in the past, just advancing at a quicker pace. Some of the old bottling and food packaging systems are marvels of ingenuity (and the man-hours devoted to their development would boggle the mind if we knew).

https://www.farmprogress.com/weeds/robotic-weed-removal-eliminates-need-for-expensive-hand-crews

Ranchers are using ‘virtual fencing’ to move their cattle — and help save prairies

Virtual fencing uses GPS collars, sounds and electrical cues to move cattle across a landscape. Along with saving ranchers time, researchers say this new technology can help protect, and create, wildlife habitat.

nebraskapublicmedia.org

Trimble Earthworks Machine Control and Guidance for Efficient Earthmoving

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[Terrel L. Shields]

It's here and it just going to continue to make our lives "better". LOL!

Sounds to me like it is going to make our lives worse because the only jobs left will be the worst of the worst manual labor...and there may well not be enough crappy jobs to go around. Further, the data centers necessary to operate AI 24/7 will draw so much electricity and become so vital that households will have their electricity rationed or curtailed. And AI will be building and maintaining this brave new electric grid. Humans need not apply. So how long before AI considers us "redundant" and starts to systematically reducing the population by execution or starvation?

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

find examples of each specific

Cows might be hered by GPS...but sheep? The world's stupidest animal? I'm not sure.

 

[TerryRohrer]

Cows might be hered by GPS...but sheep? The world's stupidest animal? I'm not sure.

Don't feel too bad. They are coming for Fido, too!

 

[Vermonter]

Know of several big and medium sized dairies (for VT anyways) that have robotic milkers, they've been around for awhile now. A friend has one of those virtual fences for his goats. Works great for the perimeter fence, not so much for rotational grazing.

 

[cashcatz]

hoe the weeds in the garden

AI laser weeders are already in development and will be superior to chemical weeding. Uses AI classification to detect weeds then zap them. I've sprayed enough roundup in my life not to lose any sleep over that one...

Carbon Robotics: First & Only Commercial LaserWeeder™

Carbon Robotics builds the industry-leading AI-powered LaserWeeder™. LaserWeeder combines computer vision, AI deep learning technology, robotics, and lasers to identify crops versus weeds - and shoots the weeds with lasers. LaserWeeding cuts weed control costs by 80%, boosts crop yield and quality,

carbonrobotics.com

 

[cashcatz]

pick up the dead chickens in the chicken house

Sure, that's an easy one and beats illegal labor which is who does it now.

 

[Dublin ohio]

AI won't do those things but robots could/will do a lot of them. I wish AI and a robot was driving the county snowplows. The a-hole this year has knocked over my mailbox 3 times. The county is buying me a new one, up to $80.

We have lost ours a couple of times. But it is not the plow itself that takes them out. It is the force of the snow coming off of the plow