I don't know if that's true, especially in comparison to ai. I think a competent random human would do research before taking charge of a coffee shop and be in reasonably good shape from day one. For sure some mistakes would be made, but i think generally the operation would run ok.
But all of that misses the key difference - a human doing this wouldn't be a random person, they would usually have relevant past experience, like previously being an assistant manager at a coffee shop. So they would manage the shop way better than this ai did.
Maybe if they create an ai that has been specially designed to manage a business then it might perform as well or better than a human, possibly. But just throwing a standard ai in the role is gonna work much less well than a human.
I can't find any other sources for that and i have no idea how reliable that German source is. Can anyone verify?
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I found a couple of other sources that say the same thing. I don't recognize any of them, but enough are saying it that it's believable. (For a claim of more importance i would need stronger sources, but for a fun fact it's good enough)
For real. I've seen recent photos of Tom Cruise where he's looking raggedly old. A runway PR press pic isn't at all representative of how a person looks compared to a pic on the street in the middle of a regular day shot by a paparazzi using a telephoto lens when the subject was unaware that their picture was being taken.
Ridiculous meaningless comparison.
And on top of that, it's totally ok for a person to just live their regular life and not spend tons of life energy trying to look a certain way.
As i said in my original post, "A dumb circuit without even a single chip in it could do that." Vibration units can literally just respond to voltage. It's how electrical devices worked before chips, like old pinball machines and old radios. It works just like how a standing fan works - there's a mechanical motor, and you literally just need to attach plain copper wires onto the motor's contact points and stick the other ends of the wire into the slots of a wall power outlet.
I don't think that actually answers OP's question. If all it does is vibrate then it doesn't need any software. It presumably just has a single button that turns vibration on/off and maybe cycles through vibration levels. A dumb circuit without even a single chip in it could do that.
A trough or elevated bed or ongoing maintenance isn't possible in the kind of quick hit unofficial guerilla action that i can do.
The thing that got me thinking it is that I've seen years-abandoned pots on nyc rooftops that have wild plants that grew themselves there. So the conditions (whatever they are) can easily support unattended plant life, so the question is which ones will work there that are good for pollinators or the environment?
Zillions of wild plants grow extremely well in unattended planter pots in nyc. They're all over the place.
And there's no such thing as "weeds". A weed just means a plant that grew itself in a spot where a person didn't want it to be. A weed is just a plant.
When people set out empty planters of soil they always wind up growing lush with random plants. The question isn't what plants can grow by themselves there, because that does itself. -
My question is what plants can i plant there that would be especially good for the environment?
How high do bees fly? This is on top of a multi-story building. Not gigantic, but more than a couple