r/solarpunk • u/Top-Monk-8496 • 1d ago
Action / DIY / Activism Looking for like minded people to discuss using ai to create permacultures around the world
I am looking for other people who want to build a network of people who want to feed the world. We can end food scarcity if we work together by creating ultra efficient permaculture setups that can be replicated anywhere.
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u/NoAdministration2978 1d ago
Why ai? Yes, if you have a hammer in your hand everything looks like nails
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u/Top-Monk-8496 1d ago
? Why not it can provide an innovation to the process of farming and permaculture. Allowing us to maximize efficiency
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u/NoAdministration2978 1d ago
It needs high quality training data first. Lots of it. General purpose LLMs aren't suitable for that task
I worked with some agricultural analytic models and gosh that stuff is not simple. It wasn't even doing much - it's main goal was to predict wheat yield based on soil properties and climate data
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u/Top-Monk-8496 1d ago
That’s the idea of gathering people who are like minded 😂
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u/Maximum-Objective-39 1d ago
Then the first thing to understand is that while there is no doubt types of AI that would be useful to a solarpunk world. It probably doesn't look much like the kind of AI that OpenAI is pretending exists. Think more, advanced analytics, rather than 'Chat GPT, design an ecosystem for me!'
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u/Top-Monk-8496 16h ago
That’s the idea collaborating with others to help create a program that can assist in creating permaculture setups. This will require others with both tech and agricultural skills. I’ve done extensive research on these topics and am looking for others with similar visions and extensive knowledge.
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u/OvermierRemodel 1d ago
i'm interested. I think ai is a huge potential to a tool that can be utilized by the people. BUT IT MUST BE OWNED BY THE PEOPLE FIRST! :)
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u/Top-Monk-8496 1d ago
I agree completely. I’m interested in creating our own server or working with ai that isn’t owned by large companies or governments
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u/OvermierRemodel 1d ago
I tried for about a second to make an offline LLM using a chatGPT API model. But damn was it out of my skill level.
I'm very interested in helping whatever project you want to launch! And I have a discord server built for online community projects that we can use to coordinate and communicate? DM for link!
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u/cromlyngames 12h ago
upvoted, but you'd do better using the words machine learning. AI has connotations, none of which are useful for your idea.
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u/Top-Monk-8496 11h ago
What connotations might that be?
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u/cromlyngames 9h ago
Amongst a large group of people on this sub, AI = art made by stealing artists work and putting it through a sausage machine. Part of corporate grab that destroys the little creative industry currently available. A lot of people not working as artists but had hopes they might one day. Other people who find the idea of their work being chopped up like a gut punch.
Amongst people who do machine learning work, AI is a buzzword used by the public, or people who don't know how to do anything other than pull a lever. So if you know what you are doing, a volunteer request 'using ai' is a sign they don't know what they want, and will likely be unfun to work with.
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u/Top-Monk-8496 8h ago
It quite literally just means artificial intelligence and is the proper term for the technology to my knowledge? If precision of language dissuades people who are judgmental of ai I probably don’t want to work with them anyways
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