Syngenta is using AI for Good - Tech Exec.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often discussed in terms of the threat it poses, whether real (automation disrupting numerous industries) or imagined (AI taking over the human race). The AI for Good Foundation, however, is committed to helping the world through AI, and has partnered with Syngenta, an agrochemical company, to launch the Syngenta AI Challenge. Participants are required'to develop a model that could be used to help scientists analyse large amounts of seed data more efficiently and effectively'. They will be tasked to find out'which soybean varieties will perform better in farmers' fields in 2015 & 2016?'. To do this, entrants will be provided with a large range of data over a four-month period, before officially submitting their efforts by June 1 of this year.