Agriculture embraces artificial intelligence

Graybeards may remember the thrill they felt when pencil-laden math calculations moved warp speed ahead into the calculator age. These days, artificial intelligence (AI) promises to bring the same heat to agriculture that it did to math classes decades ago. Artificial intelligence is a technology that includes several subsets such as machine learning, says Rania Khalaf, Inari chief information and data officer. "Machine learning enables computers to mathematically predict outcomes or make classifications by finding patterns in large amounts of data," she says. "It then learns to update these patterns or classifications over time as it sees new data."