Using Artificial Intelligence for Crop Production - Intel AI

Recently, the "Deep Greens" team, comprised of Intel AI data scientists and horticultural experts from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), competed in, and won, a 24-hour hackathon for the chance to win one of 5 slots to grow cucumbers in an autonomous greenhouse later this year. The competition is to designed to test which team can grow the most cucumbers while reducing the number of total resources needed. By succeeding in the hackathon we now have the chance to test our deep reinforcement learning algorithms in a very novel environment. In this post, we will talk more about the overall challenge, our strategy for the hackathon, and the strategy going forward. The competition is sponsored by the Wageningen University and Research (WUR) of the Netherlands, and the company Tencent*.