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by debacle 1012 days ago
It's startling how much transportation has already been optimized, and agriculture + AI is a natural pairing, but John Deere isn't a startup in the traditional sense. They've said they will have fully autonomous fleets by 2030.
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JD has been doing "AI" since a significant portion of the HN readership was even born. Integration of digital info tech into farming was something I was reading about in the '80s and is now just standard on most farms. These days in things like crop fertilization your equipment 'learns' from maps and other tests the quality of the soil and increases/decreases the amount it outputs based on a pretty fine grid system.