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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.
It's not AI, not even close. It's machine learning using a bunch of sensors collecting data and crunching all of that data. It would be no different than if they hired 3 people for every pig to watch it 24 hours a day.
AI does not exist on this planet. Well, ok, there is Trump and his intelligence is obviously artificial. So there is at least one implementation of real world AI that exists outside of the movies.
It's AI to millennials and gen z that don't know any better. To reality, it's software. The headline should be: '*SOFTWARE* is Being Used by Chinese Farmers In Their Pig Raising'. Last time I checked, software was being used by most people for one thing or another. Your'e just going to have to face it kids: you haven't 'invented' bloody anything. We used to do this sort of thing too, they were called 'High School Science Fair Projects'. Ours were also incredibly derivitave and didn't accomplish much. The only difference is that we outgrew them and evolved, and governments and corporations did not throw billions of dollars at us. It has further skewed the inaccurate sense of yourselves that began with your parents.