Artificial intelligence which is agricultures other AI and also referred to as deep learning or machine learning (ML) interacts with us every day. From Siri, to Alexa, to cars that help you drive and park, to algorithms that serve you ads, news, job and home listings, to suggestions for what music and news to listen to, its there. The goals of artificial intelligence include learning, reasoning, and perception the computer programs write themselves, get better the more data they are fed to learn from (co-called Big Data), and we dont really know how they do it.

Agriculture is one of the oldest and most important professions; worldwide it is a $5 trillion industry. The global population is expected to reach more than 9 billion by 2050, and agricultural production will need to more than double (70 percent) to fulfill the demand. Land, water, and resources are already becoming insufficient due to multiple economic, environmental, and sociological forces. A smarter, more efficient, and even more productive approach for the supply-demand chain is urgently needed.

Artificial intelligence technologies are poised to yield healthier crops, control pests, monitor soil, and growing conditions, organize data for farmers, help with the workload, and improve a wide range of agriculture-related tasks in the entire food supply chain. Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and advanced analytics help farmers analyze real time data like weather, temperature, moisture, prices, or GPS signals.

A few examples of AI- or ML-enabled technologies are:

Farmers are contributing to the development of these high-tech scientific accomplishments: collecting the big data to feed and train these AI models, and helping to prove drone and robot technology for precise cultivation for higher crop yield and better quality while using fewer resources for the betterment of the entire industry. It is estimated that farmers generate over 4.1 million data points per day, and have already deployed over 75 million Internet of Things (IoT) interconnected devices.

AI will allow farms of all sizes to meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond.

Dr. Carol Lynn Curchoe is the founder of32ATPs, and is a scientist, teacher, consultant, advisor, and author. You canfind her on Twitter.

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Artificial intelligence is intertwined in precision agriculture - AGDAILY