American farmers are having a tough year, in no small part because of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Now, the White House is gearing up to extend them a multi-billion-dollar bailout, sources tell CNN.
as automation really, really starts taking flight for these kinds of jobs (why we started applying AI to things like white collar jobs first I have no idea)
They are, though? And it has massively changed the dynamics in agriculture. They just don’t make headlines because they’re technical behind-the-scenes stuff
It’s something that annoys me a bit when everyone started talking about AI, but only really a small part of it, and then thinking that’s the be-all-end-all of the field. It never was, and still isn’t. People just don’t know about the rest, and don’t read up on it either
Side note: farming is an area where the “Internet of Things” is used extensively as well, but when people think of IoT, they similarly only think about smart homes. Same problem as well
I watched a talk given about the mining industry (and this was pre-2023 by many years - that’s the year a whole lot of Americans seemed to wake up to “AI” being a thing outside of sci-fi) seeking to automate things end-to-end. Especially as they want to extract things in places that are more and more remote, having human involvement is very expensive.
So that was the extractive industry, talking to itself in frank terms; meanwhile, you had Donvict in his first term doing lots of performative bullshit (remember all the assholes screaming at journalists to “learn to code” when they were being laid off? Pretty sure that originated in stupid talking points related to miners) about “the miners” - the very miners the extractive industry wants to entirely eliminate.
I have no doubts that the agriculture is seeking to do the same and there are probably places where similar talks have been/are being given. I know that things like having GPS guiding the machinery is already a given. I know there were already pilot programs for automation in things like, say, picking strawberries.
It’s rather ironic given where things are likely going - it seems like neither Republicans nor Democrats have really copped to the stark near-term realities on such things…
They are, though? And it has massively changed the dynamics in agriculture. They just don’t make headlines because they’re technical behind-the-scenes stuff
It’s something that annoys me a bit when everyone started talking about AI, but only really a small part of it, and then thinking that’s the be-all-end-all of the field. It never was, and still isn’t. People just don’t know about the rest, and don’t read up on it either
Side note: farming is an area where the “Internet of Things” is used extensively as well, but when people think of IoT, they similarly only think about smart homes. Same problem as well
I watched a talk given about the mining industry (and this was pre-2023 by many years - that’s the year a whole lot of Americans seemed to wake up to “AI” being a thing outside of sci-fi) seeking to automate things end-to-end. Especially as they want to extract things in places that are more and more remote, having human involvement is very expensive.
So that was the extractive industry, talking to itself in frank terms; meanwhile, you had Donvict in his first term doing lots of performative bullshit (remember all the assholes screaming at journalists to “learn to code” when they were being laid off? Pretty sure that originated in stupid talking points related to miners) about “the miners” - the very miners the extractive industry wants to entirely eliminate.
I have no doubts that the agriculture is seeking to do the same and there are probably places where similar talks have been/are being given. I know that things like having GPS guiding the machinery is already a given. I know there were already pilot programs for automation in things like, say, picking strawberries.
It’s rather ironic given where things are likely going - it seems like neither Republicans nor Democrats have really copped to the stark near-term realities on such things…