The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for July 05, 2023

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.

let’s hope he doesn’t get any bugs, computer bugs!

Just one more to go!

Pretty soon Old MacDonald is replaced as well !

I want to see the automated cows.

… except for the house? … or except for all the tasks that his wife does? She’s still doing the dishes by hand.

Not looking forward to the heart-attack through lack of exercise though

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?

LOL! Good one!

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

And yet, his wife is still doing dishes by hand?

There’s an app for that.

Old MacDonald bot the farm.

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.

Artificial intelligences can think (well, sort of), but they can’t do unless we give them effectuators.

 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

If it’s fully automated, then where’s her dishwasher???

If the AI’s named “Alexa” will there be a divorce?

Does he have root access?

Is Mrs. MacDonald the next to go?

And on this farm he had an A.I….

With a robot, here and a robot there. Her a bot there a bot everywhere a bot bot.