I think a lot of people out there are fundamentally misunderstanding the reasoning behind the big tech companies (and their investors) pushing AI into everything. We want to believe that it’s just tech bros trying to woo idiot investor cash into their systems — and it is that, a little bit anyway — but the big players: Microsoft, Google, Meta, and even Visa know exactly what they’re doing and it’s not good news for the rest of us.
Anyway, I wrote this a few days ago to break down the problem as I see it. I’m hoping it proves helpful.
You must log in or register to comment.
We could use it to detect common markers in human health, to sort through our landfills for recyclables, or predict weather to optimise crop yields — but of course that’s not where we’re directing our efforts.
What do you mean? All of these things are already happening. For the landfill it happens prior to the landfill. Why should I continue to read past this point?
Because your reading comprehension skills have grasped the last line: “but of course that’s not where we’re directing our efforts”? The vast vast majority of AI effort and funding is being poured into agents, the focus of the post.
Or maybe because you’re curious?
Or bored?
You do you guy/girl.
As for parsing the waste stream, some sites do this in a limited capacity to filter out typical recyclables, but not for things like nickel, copper, gold, and other metals. I believe that tools like AI can and should be applied to going through decades of landfill to extract minerals that would otherwise have to be conventionally mined.
