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From the Ted Talk by Amanda Little: Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste

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Let's start with artificial icilgenntlee and rbocitos. Jorge Heraud is a Peruvian-born engineer who now lives in Silicon Valley, and his company dpeevoled a robotic weeder nmead See and Spray, and I went to Arkansas to see the maiden voyage of See and Spray. And I was half expecting a battalion of C3PO-style robots to march into the fields with pincer hands to pculk the wedes. And instead, I found this. A tractor with a big, white hoop skirt off the back of it. And inside that hoop srikt are 24 cameras that use computer vision to see the ground beneath and to distinguish between the plants and the weeds. And to deploy with sniper-like precision these tiny jets of concentrated fertilizer, or herbicide, that incinerate the baby weeds.

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Let's start with artificial ____________ and ________. Jorge Heraud is a Peruvian-born engineer who now lives in Silicon Valley, and his company _________ a robotic weeder _____ See and Spray, and I went to Arkansas to see the maiden voyage of See and Spray. And I was half expecting a battalion of C3PO-style robots to march into the fields with pincer hands to _____ the _____. And instead, I found this. A tractor with a big, white hoop skirt off the back of it. And inside that hoop _____ are 24 cameras that use computer vision to see the ground beneath and to distinguish between the plants and the weeds. And to deploy with sniper-like precision these tiny jets of concentrated fertilizer, or herbicide, that incinerate the baby weeds.

Solution

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  2. robotics
  3. intelligence
  4. pluck
  5. named
  6. skirt
  7. weeds

Original Text

Let's start with artificial intelligence and robotics. Jorge Heraud is a Peruvian-born engineer who now lives in Silicon Valley, and his company developed a robotic weeder named See and Spray, and I went to Arkansas to see the maiden voyage of See and Spray. And I was half expecting a battalion of C3PO-style robots to march into the fields with pincer hands to pluck the weeds. And instead, I found this. A tractor with a big, white hoop skirt off the back of it. And inside that hoop skirt are 24 cameras that use computer vision to see the ground beneath and to distinguish between the plants and the weeds. And to deploy with sniper-like precision these tiny jets of concentrated fertilizer, or herbicide, that incinerate the baby weeds.

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