An artificial intelligence robot is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from Dutch tulip fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color.
This is where AI could legit change the world for the better in the future. Use fewer pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides as the problems can be fixed mechanically on a highly localized level.
This could even help fix problems with invasive species - imagine a drone fleet that could kill kudzu just as it erupts from the soil.
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This is where AI could legit change the world for the better in the future. Use fewer pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides as the problems can be fixed mechanically on a highly localized level.
This could even help fix problems with invasive species - imagine a drone fleet that could kill kudzu just as it erupts from the soil.
Had to re-read the title more times than I’d like to admit to recognize that “sick” didn’t mean the flowers were really awesome.
leave it to the Dutch to use AI not for the downfall of man
This is good news. I couldn’t stomach any more tulip mania.
Wikipedia article about tulip mania.
TIL
Just wait until the AI starts buying up rare tulip bulbs and sparks an investment mania that crashes the Dutch economy.