🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-10-22
Exploring how AI could transform farming diversity and accelerate cancer treatment innovations!
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Two hot takes on the two stories caught my eye on Tuesday.
💰 + 🥬 If (big if?) robots can be directed by CV/AI/ML to do the weeding, will it change farm labor to favor well capitalized industrial farming? Or, would this provide the ability for more farms with greater diversity to be practical? If so, does this mean the need for weed killing chemicals in agriculture diminishes or goes away?
Techmeme: Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered deweeding robot for farmers, raised a $70M Series D led by BOND, taking its total funding to $157M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
By Taylor Soper / GeekWire. View the full context on Techmeme.
💰 + 💊 If wet lab science and AI were applied in equal measure, does this shorten the timeline to achieve impact from innovation? Does harnessing AI provide safer and faster time to market for small molecule inhibitors targeting proteins associated with certain form of cancer?
