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In 2021, Carbon Robotics unveiled the third-generation of its Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then destroys them with high-power lasers. The company now has taken the technology from that robot and built a pull-behind LaserWeeder — and it kills twice as many weeds.

The weedkiller challenge: Weeds compete with plants for space, sunlight, and soil nutrients. They can also make it easier for insect pests to harm crops, so weed control is a top concern for farmers.

Chemical herbicides can kill the pesky plants, but they can also contaminate water and affect soil health. Weeds can be pulled out by hand, but it’s unpleasant work, and labor shortages are already a huge problem in the agriculture industry.

Metas Toolformer is designed to learn to use tools independently, outperforming larger language models in certain downstream tasks.

Natural Language is the programming language of the brain, wrote science fiction author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel Snow Crash. Recent advances in machine processing of natural language show that language can also be the programming language of machines – as they get better at understanding it.

With “Toolformer”, Meta wants to extend this principle to the use of tools.

Forbes writer Kenrick Cai joins “Forbes Talks” to discuss his landmark report on how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the economy and the world.

Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/02/02/things-yo…b4aebb5e31

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