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Posted by rocauc 13 hours ago

Proof of Corn(proofofcorn.com)
338 points | 248 commentspage 7
tsunamifury 12 hours ago|
Several things about LLMs make this a hard or complex experiment and maybe too much for the current tech.

1) context: lack of sensors and sensor processing, maybe solvable with web cams in the field but manual labor required for soil testing etc

2)Time bias: orchestration still has a massive recency bias in LLMs and a huge underweighting of established ground truth. Causing it to weave and pivot on recent actions in a wobbly overcorrecting style.

3) vagueness: by and large most models still rely on non committal vagueness to hide a lack of detailed or granular expertise. This granular expertise tends to hallucinate more or just miss context more and get it wrong.

I’m curious how they plan to overcome this. It’s the right type of experiment, but I think too ambitious of a scale.

farmin 9 hours ago||
I reckon producing corn in the Midwest would be the most researched and documented crop and location ever in history. So baked into an LLM should be some very good knowledge and assumptions. Growing a different crop elsewhere may be more challenging.
BenoitEssiambre 12 hours ago||
AI CEOs are coming.
futuraperdita 11 hours ago|
AI middle managers are coming. The highest-level corporate authority can and will continue to exist as a person that makes sure the AI systems are running correctly and skim profits off the top of the AI substructure, with the lowest stratum being an underclass precariat doing the hands-on tickets from an AI agent at a continuously adjusted market price for the task.
BenoitEssiambre 10 hours ago||
It could be just an owner or a board or directors at the top. It's possible the CEO will be automated for some companies.
qoez 12 hours ago||
Eventually robots will do this but as long as humans do the actual irl actions it makes me think of a dystopian future where all leadership decision are made by harsh micromanaging AI bosses and low paying physical labor is the only job around for humans.
lupire 10 hours ago||
The perpetual motion machine is only interesting of it generates more energy than you put in.
jovial_cavalier 11 hours ago||
I can make corn too. I go to the supermarket and hand them these little green pieces of paper, and then I have corn.

Seriously, what does this prove? The AI isn't actually doing anything, it's just online shopping basically. You're just going to end up paying grocery store prices for agricultural quantities of corn.

citizenpaul 11 hours ago||
This actually is a good summary of my theory of AI. The best use case for AI is replacing management. Thats the real reason AI is floundering right now with making money. The people in charge would literally need to admit that they are basically no longer needed and act accordingly.

This of course will never happens so instead those in power will continue to try to shoehorn AI into making slaves which is what they want, but not the ideal usage for AI.

dh2424 7 hours ago||
I hate this timeline
undo-k 5 hours ago||
This is so fucking stupid
lerp-io 9 hours ago|
so cringe
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