Alphabet 10 Is Exploring Novel Ways To Role Ai Inward Nutrient Production (Goog)

We've visited Mr. Teller  a pair times, links later the jump. The ane re: coffeemakers etc. is a pretty educational read.
Regarding Mr. Teller's showtime name, it was a high schoolhouse nickname that stuck. Regarding his final name, his gramps was Edward Teller, considered past times about the evil genius of nuclear weapons research.
(Richard Feynman on the other mitt was considered the happy-go-lucky genius of nuclear weapons research)

From MIT's Technology Review, March 27:

Astro Teller says it’s thinking nearly how to pair automobile learning alongside other technologies to revolutionize agriculture.

Alphabet’s X, the secretive lab charged alongside finding radical “moonshot” solutions to about of the world’s biggest problems, is exploring ways inwards which AI could dramatically meliorate nutrient production. Astro Teller, the caput of X, revealed the excogitation at MIT Technology Review’s annual EmTech Digital final result inwards San Francisco.  

Teller declined to scope specific examples, proverb X’s squad hadn’t even in addition to then zeroed inwards on detail approaches, exactly he hinted that it was looking at how automobile learning could endure combined alongside advances inwards areas similar drones in addition to robotics to advance farming practices.

To endure worthy of X’s attention, a projection must fulfill 3 criteria: it has to potentially solve a employment that affects millions or billions of people; it has to need an audacious, sci-fi-sounding technology; in addition to at that spot has to endure at to the lowest degree a glimmer of promise it’s achievable inside v to 10 years.

AI-driven agriculture seems a perfect fit. The Food in addition to Agriculture Organization of the UN estimates that 20 to 40 percent of global crop yields are lost each twelvemonth to pests in addition to diseases, despite the application of millions of tons of pesticides, in addition to then finding to a greater extent than productive in addition to sustainable farming methods volition do goodness billions of people. As our coverage from this week’s conference shows, AI is for sure an audacious technology, in addition to the speed at which it’s advancing agency X’s fourth dimension frame feels achievable.

Discussing the challenge ahead of his presentation, Teller said that farming is a hugely complex undertaking, in addition to then X isn’t taking it lightly. He cited several areas where automobile learning could potentially aid farmers. One would endure using the tech to amplify their expertise inwards crucial areas similar deciding when to harvest crops or apply irrigation....MORE, including video

Previously:
Google X's Head of Moonshots On the Future of Artificial Intelligence, Robots, in addition to Coffeemakers
Google: "First, kill all the artisans" (GOOG)