this is just the most ridiculous AI application i've ever seen lol
a Peter Thiel-backed startup that makes AI collars for cows is now worth $2 billion
and the more I read about it the cooler it gets. here's how it works:
every cow wears a solar-powered collar that talks to a network of radio towers and an app on the farmer's phone
instead of building physical fences, the farmer draws the fence on a map in the app, and the collar keeps each cow inside that invisible line using GPS
when a cow drifts toward the edge, the collar plays a sound to steer her, and a gentle vibration tells her which way to go.
it's like how a car beeps as you back up toward a wall
the cows learn the cues in a few days
so now a rancher can move an entire herd to fresh grass by sliding the fence on a map, without driving out to open a single gate
and that same collar is reading each cow's body the whole time.
it takes five readings per second on every animal, so the AI can catch a cow that's sick, injured, ready to breed, or about to give birth before a person would ever notice walking the field
so it's basically like WHOOP for cows too lol
and they gave the AI behind it the perfect name: the Cowgorithm
it's been trained on more than 7 billion hours of real cow behavior, which is why Halter calls the data its real asset and moat.
they know what a normal cow looks like better than anyone, so they can flag the odd one out instantly
it's already on more than 1M cattle across New Zealand, Australia, and a bunch of US states.
California even used it on public land to graze cattle in patterns that clear dry brush and slow down wildfires
costs about $5 to $8 per cow per month
a job that used to mean barbed wire, gates, and driving the fields all day is now mostly 1 person on their phone
@policytensor There is no incentive for Iran to make a deal before (a) SPR hits tank bottom and (b) the midterms.
Iran needs to make a deal before (c) their economy collapses and (d) the global economy structurally adapts to Hormuz closure.
That’s probably a multiple years long window.
@AlanKohler@abcnews Oh ffs if the young family just bought a house they should shut up and just enjoy living in their house.
Turning homes into investments has been terrible for everyone.
@NedSmith940069@TXStrong11@MBladera@therealknelson Just because they feel better being ruled by a corrupt paedophile instead of a woke scold doesn’t make anything objectively better.
They are poorer and less safe under trump. They can “feel” happy about that but objectivity doesn’t care about their feelings.
@NedSmith940069@TXStrong11@MBladera@therealknelson What’s done is done. Crying over imaginary PAST favours for Biden is just a technique to avoid confronting what an absolutely terrible job trump is doing TODAY.