Had to re-read the title more times than I’d like to admit to recognize that “sick” didn’t mean the flowers were really awesome.
That’s really cool. Much of the hype around AI tends to focus on it acting like an intelligent human (which it doesn’t do very well), but glosses over stuff like this (which it can do very well).
Just wait until the AI starts buying up rare tulip bulbs and sparks an investment mania that crashes the Dutch economy.
Millions of hard working Dutch people depend on the tulip system for their retirement. The crash was not due to the management of the tulip market, rather it’s an unavoidable pattern of boom and bust. Given this, it’s only right that the Dutch government to bail out the tulip funds to avoid a breakdown of the liliaceae system.
This is where AI could legit change the world for the better in the future. Use fewer pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides as the problems can be fixed mechanically on a highly localized level.
This could even help fix problems with invasive species - imagine a drone fleet that could kill kudzu just as it erupts from the soil.
Stupid monoculture is the cause, but let’s not fix that.
As a slight positive it will hopefully reduce the reliance on wide spread pesticides and fertilizers.
For some people admitting they were wrong is too hard
“All AI is bad” motherfuckers when it’s not used by grifters.
leave it to the Dutch to use AI not for the downfall of man
This is good news. I couldn’t stomach any more tulip mania.
Wikipedia article about tulip mania.
TIL
Let me know when “AI” does anything actually useful for humanity.
