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Part of what I find fascinating about AI is the point at which humans choose to intervene: which parts along the pipeline of work would we rather have completed by software before we take on the task ourselves? In agriculture, I’ve learned that AI can allow farmers to sleep soundly through the night rather than get up every few hours to check on their cattle — the software only sounds the alarm when it’s absolutely necessary. Or in fisheries monitoring, months’ worth of counting fish through video footage can be accomplished by AI, while a human completes the other parts of the job.

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Now onto today’s briefing. It’s 1,145 words: a four-minute read.

-Allison, @allisongacad 

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