We don’t have a farm but we have a sprinkler/drip irrigation system installed now and it’s all controlled by a program I set on my computer. So much better than the old days of stretching out the hose and wigwag sprinkler, moving it around every 15 minutes. And mowing the lawn is so much easier with the battery powered mulching mower. No more raking and hauling cuttings or oiling and filling the mower with gas. It used to take an hour or more. Now I do both lawns in 15 minutes. It may not be AI, but automation is good stuff.
Gardening is great exercise if you’re able. I like some automation but still enjoy the “instant gratification” and sense of accomplishment from doing a lot of it myself. I’m heading outside this morning as a matter of fact.
Trying to think how a fully automated farm might work. Planters, weeders, harvesters could be controlled with programs and remotely. Livestock – feed and water dispensed by machinery also? Some advanced programming would be needed to determine pest issues with plants and health issues with livestock. Or just move livestock off the farm to self-contained containment areas?
Ratkin 10 months ago
We don’t have a farm but we have a sprinkler/drip irrigation system installed now and it’s all controlled by a program I set on my computer. So much better than the old days of stretching out the hose and wigwag sprinkler, moving it around every 15 minutes. And mowing the lawn is so much easier with the battery powered mulching mower. No more raking and hauling cuttings or oiling and filling the mower with gas. It used to take an hour or more. Now I do both lawns in 15 minutes. It may not be AI, but automation is good stuff.
ronaldspence 10 months ago
let’s hope he doesn’t get any bugs, computer bugs!
The Reader Premium Member 10 months ago
Just one more to go!
iggyman 10 months ago
Pretty soon Old MacDonald is replaced as well !
backyardcowboy 10 months ago
I want to see the automated cows.
Doug K 10 months ago
… except for the house? … or except for all the tasks that his wife does? She’s still doing the dishes by hand.
Prawnclaw 10 months ago
Not looking forward to the heart-attack through lack of exercise though
````````[hopefully not]!CrimsonOne18 10 months ago
Gardening is great exercise if you’re able. I like some automation but still enjoy the “instant gratification” and sense of accomplishment from doing a lot of it myself. I’m heading outside this morning as a matter of fact.
mourdac Premium Member 10 months ago
Trying to think how a fully automated farm might work. Planters, weeders, harvesters could be controlled with programs and remotely. Livestock – feed and water dispensed by machinery also? Some advanced programming would be needed to determine pest issues with plants and health issues with livestock. Or just move livestock off the farm to self-contained containment areas?
Zebrastripes 10 months ago
LOL! Good one!
mfrasca 10 months ago
Said we were born in a barn, the barn my Grandpa built
And every night, we’d come inside, and lie under Grandma’s quilt
Been workin’ this land, workin’ these hands, at least it seems since birth
Been hammerin’ away in a factory, or outside tillin’ the earth
(chorus)
My family works in a factory, my family works on a farm
Thank God for the farm and the factory
Thank the Devil for the factory farm.
- Cody Diekhoff, a.k.a. Chicago Farmer
drtodd12 10 months ago
And yet, his wife is still doing dishes by hand?
WCraft Premium Member 10 months ago
There’s an app for that.
Frank Burns Eats Worms 10 months ago
Old MacDonald bot the farm.
zeexenon 10 months ago
Ooh, I had great fun with an A.I. online Helpdesk ‘lady’ a couple of weeks ago. My Bell Labs programmer experience from long-long ago helped.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 10 months ago
Artificial intelligences can think (well, sort of), but they can’t do unless we give them effectuators.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 10 months ago
E-I-E-I-A
ie as …
long I: lie
long E: lien
short i: sieve
short e: ancient
ei as …
long E: weird
long I: stein
short e: heifer
short i: forfeit
long A: eight
backyardcowboy 10 months ago
If it’s fully automated, then where’s her dishwasher???
backyardcowboy 10 months ago
If the AI’s named “Alexa” will there be a divorce?
Lablubber 10 months ago
Does he have root access?
paullp Premium Member 10 months ago
Is Mrs. MacDonald the next to go?
Darryl Heine 10 months ago
And on this farm he had an A.I….
donut reply 10 months ago
With a robot, here and a robot there. Her a bot there a bot everywhere a bot bot.