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>Removing pests, such as aphids, thrips and lygus bugs, is a next step for FarmWise This would be great. Poisons become ineffective against their intended targ
by trainsplanes 5y ago
>Removing pests, such as aphids, thrips and lygus bugs, is a next step for FarmWise
This would be great. Poisons become ineffective against their intended targets pretty quickly after a few generations, but evolving resistance against being zapped is a bigger hurdle to overcome.
- hackflip 5y agoI'm guessing they would eventually evolve towards camouflage/hiding from the zapper rather than resistance to zapping.
- inglor_cz 5y agoOr they would start widening their diet to include non-agricultural plants as well. That, too, is a way of escaping the killer robots.
- trainsplanes 5y agoAssuming it’s using some sort of ML to detect the bugs, that’s a matter of just inputting a new set of data. Easier to update a set of training images than find new poisons that don’t kill absolutely everything.
- nobodyandproud 5y agoOr updating the sensors and hardware, in cases where the camouflage is too good
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago> camouflage/hiding from the zapper Mirrored carapace. The refection could even harm the sensor.
- sparker72678 5y agoSomeone needs to write a SciFi short about this.
- path411 5y agoBug evolves a pattern that rewrites zapper into ai sentient human zapper
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoWhere do you think I got the idea in the first place?
- jtbayly 5y agoThe method implied in the rest of the paragraph is targeted use of pesticides, only where they are needed.
- idiotsecant 5y agothere are already reverse-engineered "pathalogical" geometries that can convince ml that a random squiggle is a car or a human or whatever.it would be interesting to see insects evolve dazzle patterns that fall into some local minima in the ml gradient and are clearly bugs to the human eye but seen as nothing at all by the ml implementation.