Chinese farmers are using AI to keep tabs on their pigs

At least in China, anyway, where tech giant Alibaba is rolling out image- and sound-recognition software to help raise excellent porcine specimens. What it does: Quartz reports that Alibaba has built software that identifies pigs by markings on their bodies, tracking their physical activity and stats such as age and weight. Sound recognition can listen out for telltale signs of ill health. Some farms in China have a lot of pigs. Tequ, a Chinese agricultural firm that's teting out the technology, raises 10 million pigs a year.