Due to #china 's #drought they are now looking to #seed #artificial #clouds to #induce #rain https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chin.. It has *never* been used in these conditions and it is really unclear what #sideeffects there may be. This could go very horribly wrong. It's also not clear what #pollution this causes. It would be #ironic if they save their #harvests but end up #poisoning it.
This #proposal #abstract is often looked at as a #failure in #ai - but I think it was actually a great #success http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/histo.. In just two months, some of the biggest names got together and really fleshed out the #complexity of #artificial #intelligence - and made tonnes of advance in further understanding how hard the problem really is. In this way, people could make better estimates of how difficult the #problemspace really is.