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AI is Being Used To Raise Better Pigs in China (qz.com)
Alibaba's Cloud Unit has signed an agreement on with the Tequ Group, a Chinese food-and-agriculture conglomerate that raises about 10 million pigs each year, to deploy facial and voice recognition on Tequ's pig farms. From a report: According to an Alibaba representative, the company will offer software to Tequ that it will deploy on its farms with its own hardware. Using image recognition, the software will identify each pig based on a mark placed on its body. This corresponds with a file for each pig kept in a database, which records and tracks characteristics such as the pig's breed type, age, and weight. The software can monitor changes in the level of a pig's physical activity to assess its level of fitness. In addition, it can monitor the sounds on the farm -- picking up a pig's cough, for example, to assess whether or not the pig is sick and at risk of spreading a disease. The software will also draw from its data to assess which pigs are most capable of giving birth to healthy offspring.
Tequ's CIO stressed that taking care of pigs is no easy task for large pig farms. "If you have 10 million pigs, relying on manpower is already not enough," he said, according to a report by local publication Tianxia Wangshang, adding that it's impossible to manually count each pig given how many are born every day.
How is simple image recognition AI?
Am I missing something in the article?
OK, now have that AI figure out how to stop Chinese pig and chicken farmers from sending out the yearly influenza strains.
I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me. You can call me AI.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
China is using the similar model of development. The technology originally created by the government to monitor and improve the lives of its citizens using social credit score is being used by private companies for profit.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Frst they start with pigs, then they will move on to humans.
And why does it want to be a pig farmer?
- The Sigless Wonder
For all those who keep saying "this isn't AI", you are WRONG. This is AI. The iPhone X is an AI phone, because it can recognize you. Please send Apple more money now since they are at the forefront in AI. Oh by the way, image recognition and neural nets have been around for decades. Glad you guys just "discovered" it.
Into ze hole
Welcome to Pig Book!
PigBook will NEVER share your most intimate details with farmers and in NO WAY will PigBook lead you to be slaughtered!
Trust me!
Signed: Mark Zuckerberg.
It keeps track of the blog posts of Lena Dunham and Rosie O'Donnel
What is my purpose?
You farm pigs
Oh god!
Vat-grown meat tech can't mature fast enough.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." — Inigo Montoya,
In other words same old same old programing with a few new tricks thrown in. Marketspeak for 2018
So this is about efficiency of enslavement and murder?
Comic Sans!!!
If you have 10 MILLION pigs in one farm, how can that be healthy? It's a tremendous strain on the natural resources, the animals and the environment.
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The correct title is "AI is Being Used To Raise Better Pigs", period.
This corrected version already implies which country is being referred to.
China using AI to manage pigs?
There's a joke about capitalists in here somewhere, but I can't find it in this pigsty!
You are aware that Comic Sans by its own names doesn't have Serifs. It is a Sans-Serif font. (Without Serif)
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
... asks, "If pigs are so smart, why are they pigs?"
Let's see AI do something about that.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Iphones are being used to raise kids in America. Take that China!
just saying
Perhaps this technology could be adapted to provide a better class of Congressmen and Senators.
Since it works on pigs, it's at least worth a try. It it worked on rats, weasels and reptiles, it would be a slam dunk.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Coming soon to a school near you? Household version also available...
other possible way to name the project:
"Smart Swines"?
or more specific "Smart Sows" if the objective is to identify "healthy" pigs for procreation?
When you combine AI with the horror of farrowing pens, a machine emerges that is truly dystopian. Why don't we adapt it to manage prisoners and control human populations and birth rates next? It sounds truly Chinese.
You know, browsers let you set default fonts, and you can select a serif font as the default for sans-serif text.
Were that I say, pancakes?
> There are two solutions
There are actually three solutions, two based on human hubris and one based on divine guidance:
> 1. Don't raise pigs and chickens together....
> 2. Vaccinate the pigs...
3. Thus spake the Lord, the God of Abraham to his prophets Moses and Muhammad:
"And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses, they are unclean to you." - Leviticus 11:7-8, Deuteronomy 14:8 and Qur'an 5:3.
This is fantastic. Could lead to more meat per investment, leading to lower cost of meat, leading to more well-fed people, leading to higher quality of life, leading to more happiness, leading to more ideas and general advancement of humanity.
They are raising square pigs. I have an interplanetary hauling order I need to fulfill!