06 GO ASK ALICE An artificial intelligence (AI) company is trying to change the way farmers farm. Curiouser and curiouser. Founded in 2007 by a group of automation engineers from Cuba, Solinftec is a renowned global business leader utilizing artificial intelligence and software as a service (SaaS) for agribusiness. Solinftec is an IoT (Internet of Things)-based farm management system designed to optimize the farming process to save growers money. Headquartered in Brazil, it has offices in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, in partnership with Purdue University; one in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; an office in Cali, Cauca Valley, Columbia; and a technology center in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company’s Solix Ag Robotics works with the acronym-robotic system ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) AI platform that provides farmers with a new level of real-time information. For use on farms growing corn, soybean, wheat, cotton, or other specialty crops, the 100 percent autonomous and solar-powered Solix system provides real-time information specialized for just that one farm customer. It can provide data on scouting and target-spraying and early-stage weed control—all of which allow farmers to eliminate insects without chemical pesticides, have up to 95 percent herbicide reduction, a reduction in the carbon footprint of the ag business, soil impaction lessened as fewer vehicles are run over the field, all while providing a low-impact, highperformance agricultural performance. The ALICE AI doesn’t show you raw data for you to decide and take chances on your own—but it does provide you with the best “advice” for you to take at every step of the way, even if the conditions change every hour. In other words, farm operators still decide if they want to follow the advice given to them by ALICE AI. Although the average adult human makes about 35,000 decisions a day (per Krockow, E. (2018). How Many Decisions Do We Make Each Day?) ALICE AI being a supercomputer, can do more. The ALICE AI can receive 10 billion pieces or more of information from your field every day. From there, the AI gathers and presents to you the best course of action for you and your farm. Per Solinftec, it will enable your farm to have greater yield productivity, lower risk, and lower costs for your business. PHOTO: solinftec.com
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