In an age wherein technological advancement is a dominant force, featuring profound impacts which shape both industry and society at large, one sector has taken a more measured approach to its adoption: agriculture. While other segments of the economy have embraced the newest technologies with increasing rapidity, growers tend to exhibit a somewhat more cautious…
Is AI Coming for Your Grow? Elon Musk has been grabbing headlines lately, and while this is not unusual for the serial tech entrepreneur, his dire warnings about a technology which lies at the heart of most of his companies’ endeavours are. Artificial intelligence, as described by Musk, is among the greatest threats to humanity…
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence that enables machines to interpret and understand visual information from the world around them. The technology has rapidly evolved in recent years, with deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) making significant progress in improving the accuracy and reliability of computer vision systems. These systems…
Since the Neolithic Period, which marked the dawn of agriculture some 12,000 years ago, man has been at war. The adversary, adaptable, advantaged by overwhelming numerical superiority and an evolutionary head-start reckoned in millions of years, has won many battles — yet ultimately, we have prevailed. Some of the earliest scribblings of recorded history document…