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That's what kills me and continues to perplex me. Something like AI for agriculture machines (think maize and soybean fields) are NOT heavily regulated, safety
by kickout 5y ago
That's what kills me and continues to perplex me. Something like AI for agriculture machines (think maize and soybean fields) are NOT heavily regulated, safety critical, or deeply complex. Its basically 160 acres of open space with reasonable guarantees no humans are around. It would take a trivial amount of time to code in the proper kill switches to deactivate these machines if they detect a human with x feet
Sadly this research is only starting to take off (with 1/1000000 of the investment too). 50B-100B industry...
- lumost 5y agoAutomating heavy machinery is a tricky business. The amortized capex can outstrip the costs of the operator by a significant margin. The cost of downtime due to AI failure may be larger than the savings of not having an operator. If you can replace individual pickers on the other hand...
- sqqqqrly 5y agoMy grandfather was a farmer in Ohio. He was always very worried that I, as a small child, would get in the field and be hit and killed by his tractor. This may have been because he did accidentally kill a dog once this way.