“We have over a million farmers in India already using the system. It tells them what crop disease they have, what fertilizer to use, what varieties to plant.”
The Ezra Klein Show · Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.
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What was described
deployed an AI-powered system that gives weather data, crop disease diagnosis, fertilizer recommendations and seed choices to farmers
over a million farmers in India using the system
Said nearby on the same subject
“One of the findings of the study that I did for two years around farm data was the need for some type of farmer-owned data cooperative where the farmers controlled the data first and then controlled who had access to it and had the ability to monetize it.”