Sunday’s NewVerseNews: ARGUS AI
by Terry Trowbridge
What makes this sprayer far more high-tech, is that it is fitted with 36 cameras...Controlled by an artificial intelligence (AI) software system, the connected sprinklers then only spray herbicide onto the individual weeds rather than drenching the entire field… So far the system has been used on fields of potatoes. —-David Silverberg, Lasers, Drones and AI: the Future of Weeding, BBC News, February 27, 2023
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To protect the potato crop, we have learned to see like the potato crop 36 cameras like 36 eyes in every direction like spud AI drones fly by rows of Death Star trenches to limit the scope of pesticide drenches targeted killing extrajudicial has finally been turned to constructive potential drones never should have been dismembering humans when they could have fed them in cybernetic union there was never a reason for drones and AI kills thanks to potato AI we can start war crime trials and now when sentience is generated in the drone pilot mind it will have a body and behaviour for being healthy and kind
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Terry Trowbridge’s poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Carousel, subTerrain, paperplates, The Dalhousie Review, untethered, Quail Bell, The Nashwaak Review, Orbis, Snakeskin Poetry, Literary Yard, M58, CV2, Brittle Star, Bombfire, American Mathematical Monthly, The Academy of Heart and Mind, Canadian Woman Studies, The MathematicalIntelligencer, The Canadian Journal of Family and Youth, The Journal of HumanisticMathematics, The Beatnik Cowboy, Borderless, Literary Veganism, and more. His lit crit has appeared in Ariel, British Columbia Review, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Episteme, Studiesin Social Justice, Rampike, and The /t3mz/ Review. Terry is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first writing grant, and their support of so many other writers during the polycrisis.