'Fox & Friends' co-hosts criticize liberal San Francisco Mayor London Breed after she claimed crime statistics were taken completely out of context and that her city is being targeted. Residents and business owners in California's Bay Area are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to combat a surge of burglaries and robberies along with police staffing shortages, with one security company telling Fox News Digital its sales of AI-based surveillance have been through the roof. Deep Sentinel, a Pleasanton, California-based company providing AI-based security nationwide, told Fox News Digital that business tripled during the coronavirus pandemic and that trend has continued ever since as burglaries and robberies continue to plague San Francisco and the Bay Area in general. "I would say that the business segment has just skyrocketed in the past year," Tomasz Borys, Deep Sentinel's vice president of marketing, told Fox News Digital. "The way that works is these cameras come with a sensor, so when there's an object that goes in front of the camera, it will trigger the artificial intelligence really quickly within a millisecond and determine what the object is," Borys explained.

Eteros Technologies USA, Inc., a global leader in cannabis harvesting equipment, recently acquired Bloom Automation, creating the first agricultural technology (Ag-tech) company focused on the post-harvest cannabis market. Founded in Canada in 2016, Eteros Technologies is now the premier manufacturer of cannabis automation equipment globally. As the parent company of the Triminator and Mobius brands, Eteros seeks to provide post-harvest processing solutions for all levels of cannabis production. The acquisition of Bloom strengthens Eteros' ability to deliver on that goal by bringing computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to cannabis producers. Although Ag-tech has been one of the fastest-growing sectors in conventional farming and is expected to top 15.3 billion in 2025, Ag-tech in cannabis is still in its infancy.

AI is just about everywhere these days. It simplifies and expedites processes that would otherwise be done manually. Though once an exotic term of science fiction, it's now what greets you the moment you interact with the customer service page of any major retailer. It should be no surprise that AI has entered the cannabis sphere. Artificial intelligence has the capacity to boost production, improve efficiency, and even make the entire process more environmentally friendly.

AI is transforming the world--and the cannabis industry. Some view Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an existential risk that could wipe out humanity, others see it as an exciting new frontier to advance civilization. Regardless of one's views, its prevalence today cannot be understated. Its application is so ubiquitous that even those critical of AI may not even be aware of how pervasive it is in shaping our interactions. AI often works behind-the-scenes to influence and shape our interactions and society at large.

If two markets are pretty much guaranteed to make money over the next decade separately it's artificial intelligence and cannabis. Together, the pair could form a perfect storm thanks to COVID-19 driving demand. Cannabis is more popular than ever thanks to lockdowns and vape technology and the market is predicted to be worth $76.3 billion by 2027). A.I. adds new business benefits for the industry that the COVID boom could mean big changes ahead for regulation. Adrian Holguin, CEO of CannaShark Consulting, started consulting for cannabis companies in 2017, and in three years he says the changes have been dramatic.

To some, artificial intelligence (AI) may be categorized next to the likes of Bitcoin and blockchain: it's just another techie buzz word. For others, artificial intelligence could conjure up images of sentient robots hellbent on world domination. While artificial intelligence, in some ways, can be those things, what it is in practice often looks much different. The artificial intelligence that many people talk about today can also be referred to as machine learning, or the process by which software takes in data, learns patterns, and makes whatever adjustments it needs to make to achieve its goal. "Every industry is being shaken up by AI these days," explained Brad Newkirk, strategic leader at LumiGrow, a smart lighting company working to develop AI solutions for cannabis cultivators.

In the modern era, each industry seems to grow with the technology that supports it. Looking to the cannabis business of today, it's amazing to see how sophisticated and modernized this once grassroots and obscure industry has become. To this end, the cannabis industry of 2019 is beginning to mirror more mainstream businesses, as well as share in the technological advancements that support them. Of the novel technologies being entertained in the cannabis space, artificial intelligence shows some promising potential on the cybersecurity front. In any U.S. state with a legal cannabis market, compliance and security are some of the most integral features of successful business operations.

Pictured above is a general purpose dual RBG camera system, designed by Carnegie Mellon University researcher George Kantor and his R&D team, to collect high quality images in agricultural environments. Collected images can feed crop-specific artificial intelligence methods that extract measurements such as crop yield, maturity, or disease incidence. Generally speaking, artificial intelligence (AI) enabled technologies are infiltrating every aspect of our daily lives, from the smartphones everyone is carrying around everywhere to places where maybe AI is best left on the sidelines (have you heard about Alexa's newest integration into a connected shower head device?). As you all know, the greenhouse has not been spared from the "AI Revolution" – not in the slightest – and one area we're hearing the technology is making believers out of skeptics is in the legal cannabis space, where high profit margins and a youthful, tech-focused grower demographic creates the perfect storm for early-stage ag tech adoption. If you disagree with that statement, I invite you to spend a day next year at the massive MJBizCon show in Las Vegas, which at this point is basically a smaller, more focused CES show for cannabis producers, and then let me know if you still don't think cannabis growers are all that innovative or on the cutting edge of technology adoption.

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With so much focus this year on the personal use cannabis market it's easy to forget that there are some really unique cannabis companies entering the market. One such company has an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can be used by law enforcement and companies to detect cannabis (and alcohol) impairment. Cultivar Holdings Inc.'s (CSE: CULT) vision is to be a global leader in the cannabis space. Their portfolio ranges from the development of cannabis-derived products that are backed by science to artificial intelligence based solutions to detect cannabis impairment. Cultivar is a holding company for 3 globally focused cannabis companies that each provides a unique investment opportunity in their own right.