From small-scale home systems that take the guesswork out of growing for beginners to commercial operations and predictive software, the technology has the ability to change how the world grows, sees and uses cannabis, from hemp and CBD to marijuana, along with the other crops we're more accustomed to like cucumbers and tomatoes. "Right now, it's kind of an obscure topic," said Nathaniel Morris, founder of William Bond Ai in Ontario, which uses AI to train machines to grow cannabis. "It's not going to be obscure for long. Morris said AI imaging can find impurities in the plants, like mold, or a male plant that can impact the entire crop, better than the human eye, once trained to do so by an expert. The technology isn't really new -- but adapting it to fit the needs of cannabis growers is.