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.
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’!
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.
“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.
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
Guided by AI or just simply using a sophisticated program?
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.
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
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’!
Most likely it is programmed to if the specific crop at all stages of development and eliminate everything else.
If it uses training and a model, and not just pre-defined parameters, then yes, it is a form of AI
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.
“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.
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!
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
They most likely use image recognition. So there’s a little NN there