AI applied to agriculture and the power of converting data into decisions

"Artificial Intelligence will not replace the agricultural engineer, but the agronomist who knows how to use AI will replace the one who does not use it," warned Hernán Ferrari, a technician from INTA and one of the promoters of the INTA-Crucianelli-Leaf Agrotronics agreement, an accord that marks the direction of a new agriculture based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is a strategic alliance to create an intelligent network that transforms data into agronomic decisions and thus begins to try to meet the high demand for food that will come in the medium term due to the growth of the world population. Ferrari indicated: "We need a plan B that is already underway and has a name: Artificial Intelligence applied to agriculture." According to Ferrari, "the field of the future will be a living system that learns," to which he added: "Machines will not only work, but they will understand what they do." Through sensors, satellites, and learning algorithms, the network allows linking ...