Artificial intelligence 'transformative' for the future of ag

Artificial intelligence is not the scary, half-human half-robot movie character some might think it is, says Precision AI founder Daniel McCann. "AI is just a data processing system that points out patterns in huge volumes of data and that's it," he said during a presentation at the virtual Canada's Farm Show. For agriculture, it represents the future. McCann said he believes within the next 15 years common pieces of farm equipment, such as the broadcast sprayer, will become like a BlackBerry -- still around, not too common and not too efficient. But he said AI in agriculture is at an interim step along the way to that.