Separating and processing trash would be a great example where ML, AI, robotics and other stuff would really help progress. It's a really hard problem that shou

Separating and processing trash would be a great example where ML, AI, robotics and other stuff would really help progress. It's a really hard problem that should be very interesting to work on. Instead we have the best minds of our generation working on building total surveillance machines and hacking the human brain to sell more crap.