The human experience remains central in the decisions of the field.

The discussion about the use of artificial intelligence in the field has been gaining traction, especially in light of the promise of greater efficiency and automation in the crops. This assessment comes from Welson Perli Pereira, a technical and agricultural consultant, who has closely followed the exchange of information among tomato producers in a large collaborative group for a decade. Over the past ten years, the Tomato Brazil Group has accumulated around 169 thousand messages and a vast collection of images of leaves, roots, and fruits, forming what Welson defines as the largest set of practical data on tomatoes in the country. Despite the ability of artificial intelligence to process billions of pieces of information in seconds, he assesses that the technology does not replace human experience in the field. For the consultant, the central difference lies between data and wisdom. While automated systems respond quickly to technical questions, agricultural production depends ...