I can't believe he even told anyone he was stupid enough to have an AI tell him a chemical name, go buy a shit ton of it, and poison 25 acres of crops with it without bothering to check with anyone or do anything to be certain the chemical was safe for his crop.
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AI just wanted to wipe out 25 acres to make room for another datacentre /s
So I may have eaten that halfwit's production...
Back at the end of the last century when search engines first were gaining popularity, your lycoses and search cactuses and ask Jeeves and dogpile and what not, I'm pretty sure there were stories of people taking what they found as true without considering sources or getting multiple reliable sources too.
I made a comment like this the other day. like 80% of the time essentially ok answer. not necessarily the best. 20% something wack but can sound reasonable. honestly I think that 80% is in my head from like months ago because I feel like the free ones I screw around with to be conversant have sorta gotten worse.
bet he was a MAGA farmer.
edit: nope, he was Thai. close enough.
Sir , please don't blame Thai people
Uhhh, I will just leave this here.

All charts in LLM era without multiple reliable citations are totally worthless.
Don't believe anything - Brought to you by the Tech Bros.
He's Chinese.
Clarkson farm had AI mapped field as to where to plant seeds based on ai analysing data on the ground quality, he praised it and while I'm no expert at farming, i do come from a farm and I remember this being a big waste everyone just accepts.
They didn’t use AI, they used an EMI and advanced technology to apply a data driven approach.
Then they got a drought. Turns out, even if you use technology and data to plant in a manner to optimize your yield you still need rain to grow things.
And this is why I dislike the term “AI”…
Someone here said it’s now a synonym for “technology.” At the moment I thought that was hyperbole, but really it’s about right.
A lot of it actually is AI, as in the vast field of computer science called artificial intelligence. It's a lot bigger than just LLMs and slop generators.
It's all over the place.
Marketing teams throw the word AI into ads because it sells.
People are getting accustomed to assuming "AI" means smart.
It's a shit word and I can't wait for the bubble to pop. I say that as a marketer forced to shove the world AI everywhere.
When confronted by the farmer about the crop failure as a direct result of following the AI's recommendations, the AI informed the farmer that he was correct to push back on that.
The people pushing these AI chatbots should be liable. Make them do farm work. Reconnect them with the earth.
There have been cases where chatbots were held liable for what they said.
When an Air Canada chatbot told a passenger he could get a bereavement discount on returning from a funeral instead of having to arrange it up front, the courts found that Air Canada was responsible for that advice and had to honour it, even if it wasn't their policy.
But, good luck getting them to hold the word guessing machine companies responsible for when someone talks directly to it and blindly follows its advice. I'm sure that among the pages and pages of terms and conditions that people just ignore, there's something in there saying that it's just for entertainment and nothing it says should be taken seriously.
To a certain extent, people need to make responsible choices. I really hope that, in time, people realize that talking to an LLM chatbot is not ever a responsible choice.
For entertainment purposes only.
I, for one, am very entertained by this.
Now THATS a spicy meatball!
You should have been using the more expensive "mythically large foreskin" model instead of the "comically tiny peanut" model. That's on you.
The same generation of people who taught us never to trust what we see on TV. Then the internet came along and they all became incredibly trusting all of a sudden. Maybe if Chat GPT tells them they can fly if they jump off of a roof while wearing a red cape, they'll finally get it.
The real tragedy here is a 67 year old still working a farm.
I know a guy in his late 80's who's still farming. He's told me a million times that the day he stops farming will be the day that he dies, and I believe him. He's got enough money to retire - he's just in it for the love of the game.
He’s outstanding in his field.
Ok take my upvote and get out
That joke is as old as agriculture, but thanks. See ya!
I heard rural China isn't nearly as developed as you'd think as a westerner. We mainly look at all the modern cities and regions which have become the factory of the world.
True, but the bloke has access to a.i. so he can't be that far off the beaten track. Chuzhou looks like it's a pretty sizeable city as well.
And I'm not sure what that has to do with working until you die. Mind you, I have no retirement savings, so that'll probably be me, too, but at least I'm not doing hard physical labour.
A lot of farmers love the land. I had loved ones who kept boutique farming between chemo treatments. Nurturing living things to do cool stuff for people (like be food and clothes and drugs) is gratifying. People just want to do that sometimes.
he can’t be that far off the beaten track
He just needs to be somewhere with cell phone service.
There are rural areas of the world where people still use oxen to pull their plows rather than a tractor, but these days they have cell phones.
Have you seen the average age of an American farmer?
Isn't the average American farmer a megacorporation or investment fund these days?
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2024/02-13-2024.php as of 2022 average age was 58.1 years old. Depends somewhat on the industry often mega corps know they can't farm and are just Monopsonys driving more and more farmers out of business as they lower prices paid to farmers and increase prices the public pays to them. Clearly not short sighted at all what could go wrong....
What a silly man. He obviously should have just used Grok, so than rather than giving him bad advice it would have just called him a Pedo and told him he was complicit in white genocide in South Africa
Time and time again, asking the oracle for wisdom, begets replies from drug addled teenagers.
Sloppers need to be the first to starve when food shortages kick in.
It we're not just going to take out the trash, we can at least brand their faces with a sphincter and make them the ablative layer for the damage they did.
"an herbicide"
another quality article...
Well actually that's a bit more complicated. Some English accents will pronounce the "h" and it'll sound like, well, "herb", but other accents treat it as silent and it sounds like "erb".
I'm going to guess this author and/or style-guide pronounces it "an erb"



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