Tony is a Geek

"If we want to scale to more complex behaviour, we need to do better with less data, and we need to generalise more."(*1) During the 2015-2019 period, it was all about "AI is going to change the world", "AI is awesome, look at the amazing things it can do", "jump on the AI band-wagon".....etc...etc...etc... I worked on many a project during this time period and I often found myself sitting back (the ability to do that was a rare occasion, I can tell you) and asking, "Where is the AI in this solution?". Everyone else, the project stakeholders, executives, Data Scientists ( I still have beef with that job title, but I'll leave that for another day ) were all strutting around dropping the "AI" word and I just couldn't see it.  Yes, we had a few isolated "smart" bits, but they were just algorithms triggered by good old fashioned code on certain events that made life a bit easier / quicker for the end user -

Unfortunately, it's not my GardenBot, because I've been too frikkin busy doing stupid work for Finance companies instead of revolutionising the Farming industry!!!! Seriously, if I had the ability to have spent the past 3 years doing what I wanted to do...and that was to basically make a large scale robot that could do gardening and then venture into full scale farming, then it would have been myself going up for the $15m funding to get robots out there doing farming tasks, using AI / ML technologies to help. Sigh.  okay, I suppose I could have done it, I could have quit IBM, I could have gambled all for the venture, but you know, mortgages and such like get in the way.... https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/your-next-salad-could-be-grown-by-a-robot?fbclid=IwAR3HOyePl5_aA5vZScLavPbIMTBBvxED-4Tm-pARRgnMk_z0COyRK6beNqo https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/your-next-salad-could-be-grown-by-a-robot?fbclid=IwAR3HOyePl5_aA5vZScLavPbIMTBBv