Science fiction is fast becoming a reality on the apple orchards of Central Washington, where farmers facing labor shortages are testing out robots that coul...
My concern with these is that they will be sent to pick the Amazon rainforest, and since AI is so accurate, they will leave behind not a single individual of whatever they get sent to pick. With human collecters you at least had them miss a small percemtage, leaving potential for regrowth.
As long as the machine has a clearly given hard qouta “leave x amount on tree” you avoid that.
Honestyly I would be more concerned for the workers that would lose their jobs.
Yes Ideally we want the machines doing the manual labor tasks but in this economy and current far right farm labors are under threat of genocide
My concern with these is that they will be sent to pick the Amazon rainforest, and since AI is so accurate, they will leave behind not a single individual of whatever they get sent to pick. With human collecters you at least had them miss a small percemtage, leaving potential for regrowth.
As long as the machine has a clearly given hard qouta “leave x amount on tree” you avoid that. Honestyly I would be more concerned for the workers that would lose their jobs.
Yes Ideally we want the machines doing the manual labor tasks but in this economy and current far right farm labors are under threat of genocide