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by bob10296 hours ago |
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upvoteby inetknght6 hours ago|
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> You can't run a combine harvester 100% autonomous

I'm curious why you think that.

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upvoteby theoreticalmal5 hours ago|
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Probably repair, refuel, what happens in a tornado. There’s an infinite amount of complexity in the world and a finite amount of computation
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upvoteby sidewndr461 hours ago|
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The tornado is the easiest one to solve. It's called insurance.
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upvoteby catchnear43212 hours ago|
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Repair is more maintenance than use. Good eventual goal. Not required to see benefits. Best case, it drives itself to the garage. Worst case, for now, human mechanic does a house call.

Refueling? Seems solvable. Tornadoes? Not directly solvable, but, no less so than for humans.

There’s infinite complexity, sure, but that’s why it’s silly to try and hop to done. One step at a time.

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upvoteby spauldo55 minutes ago|
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Tornado: return to the barn when you receive emergency weather alerts. Not much different than people.
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upvoteby AndrewKemendo2 hours ago|
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The whole reason people complain about AI is because they want “hop to done”

One step at a time is what is happening and the improvement and rate of improvement is crazy as we see,

A whole class of nontechnical people don’t accept anything but “fully solved including every possible edge case” before they call it done, then complain that they didn’t prepare socially for what happens when that is true.

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upvoteby bob10295 hours ago|
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Many forms of maintenance cannot be automated. Especially break fix maintenance.
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upvoteby m4632 hours ago|
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It is hard to run over spherical cows.
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upvoteby westurner2 hours ago|
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Because of the topology and hydrology of the landform
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upvoteby mschuster915 hours ago|
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Oh you absolutely can run them autonomously on the field. You only need a human these days to refuel them.

Precision Agriculture stuff is utterly crazy these days, other than fuel the remaining staff is the only thing left where you can get efficiency improvements - and at the scale of modern megafarms, even small percentages add up to a ton of money.

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upvoteby drfloyd5158 minutes ago|
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Right. As they said, you can’t do it 100% autonomously. A human needs to feed it.

You essentially said: you’re wrong, it is autonomous when it doesn’t need a human during one specific part of its overall usage.

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