Vivienne Ming

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in the Salinas Valley of California.

So this is where John Steinbeck is from.

All of his Nobel running novels, Indubious Battle and The Grapes of Wrath and

So I watched

Armies of human beings go out into those fields every day, going up and still today, bent over in fields and

Picking lettuce twenty five percent.

Of the produce of the entire United States and a meaningful chunk of the world comes out of these farms in California.

grown by people California d or at least America doesn't seem to want anymore.

There's a reasonable point.

That human beings shouldn't be forced to do that.

And wouldn't it be great if we had a fully automated farms that could do this?

Is if we could find something for all those people to do to feed their families.

So there are tasks which are reasonable to automate.

But to know, what I'm really saying is

In the kind of tasks that interest me.

There is very little that I would

Fully automate.

Instead, a better metaphor, particularly for this crowd, is working with AI and

Feels a lot like working with my graduate students.

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