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Will an AI be able to do this too? Probably. Hey! I don't think it's a good idea. But if it's cheap and effective, guess how long it will take?

• mano78 2y ago
  Not even an AI, there are simpler ways. But as an italian, I will be in the pitchforks-armed horrified mob if this will be proposed. Not a chance.
  • chuckadams 2y ago
    Presumably the mob would be armed with little hammers.
• alwa 2y ago
  Technically? Not long. Socially and politically? My money’s on the battitore.
• maxbond 2y ago
  It's been possible to automate this job away for decades, with no AI necessary. You could image these cheese wheels with ultrasound or X-rays and establish thresholds for the size of voids which are tolerable. This must be a concern wherever parts are cast, so surely there are off the shelf solutions. Presumably this isn't news to the relevant parties and they value having human battitores over the savings.
  • pvg 2y ago
    The 'savings' could also take an unreasonably long time to realize. The capital outlay is not small (the scanning machines, their maintenance, still need humans to categorize the cheeses) and artisanal cheese probably isn't all that high-volume a business nor is it particularly bound by precision and tight tolerances - it can matter a lot that some doodad that goes into a machine is defect free, less so with a hunk of cheese.
• Ekaros 2y ago
  ML algorithm probably could do parts of the job. The tap and sound. But there is most likely also large amount general QA of environment going on. Are things done right, is temperature right, is humidity right, is there weird touch. And so on. All of this is much harder to understand and gather under scope of AI... Lot of it is likely not even conscious...