Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening

I love plants. I am not great with plants. I have accepted this fact and have therefore entrusted the lives of all of the plants in my care to robots. These aren’t fancy robots: they’re automated hydroponic systems that take care of water and nutrients and (fake) sunlight, and they do an amazing job. My plants are almost certainly happier this way, and therefore I don’t have to feel guilty about my hands-off approach. This is especially true that there is now data from roboticist at UC Berkeley to back up the assertion that robotic gardeners can do just as good of a job as even the best human gardeners can. In fact, in some metrics, the robots can do even better. In 1950, Alan Turing considered the question “Can Machines Think?” and proposed a test based on comparing human vs. machine ability to answer questions. In this paper, we Continue reading Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening