Want To Grow More Strawberries? AI Has The Answers - AI Summary

Experts in artificial intelligence (AI) trounced some of the world's best strawberry growers in a novel competition in China to see who could grow the most fruit. Three teams of top traditional growers were pitted against four teams of AI experts in the contest in Yunnan province organised by China Agricultural University and Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo. BREAKING TRADITION: One of the expert traditional farmers who finished a distant second to teams using artificial intelligence (AI) in a novel contest in China last year. AgriFutures Australia managing director John Harvey said while there had been a big lift in capital investment into developing agrifood technologies, on-farm uptake was not rising at the same rate. Mr Harvey said the humans versus AI strawberry growing contest in China was a great example of the kind of work Australia needed to do to help farmers work out which technologies were going to deliver the greatest benefit and in what circumstances.