In Western Kenya, Roseline Akochi, a smallholder farmer, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve her crops. She is rising cassava – a starchy and carbohydrates-rich root vegetable grown in Africa, Asia, and South America.
Roseline makes use of her telephone to scan her crops. That is how she will immediately diagnose illnesses and pests: she’s utilizing an app developed by the non-profit group Plant Village. This expertise supplies quick options to crop well being points, addressing challenges that farmers like Akochi have confronted for years.
The app provides extra than simply illness prognosis. It additionally consists of sources on acquiring high quality seeds, getting ready land, and connecting with agricultural specialists. Since adopting the app in 2018, Akochi has seen a dramatic enhance in her harvest. Her cassava yield has grown from 5 baggage to 200, enabling her to pay for her kids’s training and construct a house. That is nice, is not it?
Personally, I do not use a lot AI on my telephone, however that can in all probability change within the close to future, as every little thing has to do with AI increasingly more and ultimately, it is going to develop into inevitable. Nonetheless, many individuals use AI already… in all types of the way. The aforementioned Kenyan story jogs my memory of a narrative from throughout the globe that additionally has to do with AI.
In Japan, there’s the CatsMe! app that makes use of AI to assist pet homeowners detect if their cats are in ache, decreasing the necessity for tense vet visits. The app was skilled on 6,000 cat pictures and claims over 95% accuracy, which is predicted to enhance with extra knowledge.
The app addresses a standard problem, as research present over 70% of aged cats expertise ache, however solely 2% obtain veterinary care.
As I mentioned, AI will not be my cup of tea proper now, however I see that altering quickly. It sounds promising, I can not deny.
