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But the winner didn't remove the tree. They just built a an AI team of tree-cutters...


That may not actually cut trees.


Yes. They wrote an AI prompt to cut a tree and gave a presentation about how this is the future of tree cutting. They did not cut the tree, nor build a robot that cut the tree. They fantasised about building a robot that builds a robot that cuts the tree.




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