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Dave Hunter @_davehunter

AI-enabled food security

Joined November 2011
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Dave Hunter@_davehunter
26 Sep 2023
Optimal's AI-powered greenhouse in the Netherlands has achieved breakthrough results! This brings us closer to a food secure future in the face of climate change and global insecurity. 13% yield šŸ… šŸ„’ 14% brix (taste) šŸ˜‹ -27% energy āš” -20% CO2 šŸŒ hortidaily.com/article/95626ā€¦

AI powered greenhouse outperforms Dutch growers

It comes as no surprise to Dutch greenhouse owner Frank van Kleef that an AI-powered greenhouse outperforms the benchmark Dutch grower - after all, there's a reason he left his own greenhouseā€¦

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Rest In Peace @ScottAdamsSays Thank you for your generosity and your thoughtful words of truth. You were an excellent human being.
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Analysed Github Copilot ToS and Cursor ToS via GPT. If they use your code to train their models despite you opting out then there is a small chance you can successfully sue. How do devs handle this?
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My view is to go with the provider that would suffer the greatest risk adjusted loss by stealing your code. Clear winner here is Copilot
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Alternatively assuming that your code will get stolen despite contracts and execute accordingly
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Designing an org chart today means starting with AI and then figuring out where the humans fit in
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Our open roles in engineering are changing by the week as new AI models are released
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Jordan Burgess
@jordnb
2 Feb 2025
Tariffs might be the thing that finally makes high tech greenhouses work in America. (Daveā€™s been working on how to run them with AI as good Hollandā€™s best)
Dave Hunter@_davehunter
2 Feb 2025
Most people donā€™t understand how devastating tariffs will be on the availability of fresh produce in America: šŸ§µ
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Most people donā€™t understand how devastating tariffs will be on the availability of fresh produce in America: šŸ§µ
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7/ Why not build more American greenhouses?! VPOTUS JD Vance and other investors recently ploughed $700M into a company building greenhouses in Kentucky. But the company went bankrupt in a few years. Why did this happen...
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8/ Iā€™ll dive into the challenges of building greenhouses in America in the next one...and how we can overcome them!
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Caught up with robotics kitchen founder @josefchen - offering insanely good Ā£ per gram-of-protein ratios on food bowls at @KAIKAKU_AI Built their own robots from scratch enabling them to offer higher quality at a lower price than competitors. Check it out!
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Matches our experience. Human expert AI copilot maximises output. answer.ai/posts/2025-01-08-dā€¦

Thoughts On A Month With Devin ā€“ Answer.AI

Our impressions of Devin after giving it 20 tasks.

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Incredible work being done by Optimal's AI engineering team in London to automate food production in greenhouses. This team isšŸ”„
Optimal@OptimalAg
26 Jul 2023
The Optimal AI team enjoying the view from our new office in London! This location puts us at the centre of AI tech in Europe, whilst being a Eurostar away from our R&D greenhouse in the Netherlands.
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