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AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion

AI Today Podcast #84: AI in Agriculture — Use Case Series

Apr 10, 2019
Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer discuss how AI is transforming the agriculture industry, including optimizing yield, battling pests, forecasting, farm labor, personal level uses in agriculture, and future adoption of AI in the industry.
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Quick takeaways

  • AI technologies in agriculture improve farm efficiency and enhance overall production.
  • Agricultural robots and chatbots address labor challenges and assist farmers in making informed decisions.

Deep dives

AI transforming the agriculture industry

The agriculture industry, representing $5 trillion worldwide, is turning to AI and cognitive technologies to optimize farm planning and increase yield. AI is being used to improve farm efficiency, make smarter decisions about resources, and enhance overall production. It combines ground data from agricultural devices with computer vision and deep learning algorithms captured from drones and other equipment to analyze images in real-time. AI also aids in precision agriculture by detecting diseases in plants, targeting weeds, and improving harvest quality. Additionally, AI technologies, such as software chatbots and robotic hardware, are solving farm labor challenges and assisting farmers in making informed decisions.

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