4 November 2021
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The Dutch AI Coalition (NL AIC) has developed the first AI course for the Agri and Food sector in collaboration with the Top Sector Agri & Food and Groenpact. A free online course that aims to give green entrepreneurs and green students a better understanding of the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications in the sector.
"AI is a term not immediately familiar to everyone in the Agri and Food sector. In fact, people may be more likely to associate AI or KI with artificial insemination or artificial insemination," said the Dutch AI Coalition (NL AIC) about the first AI course for the Agri and Food sector. "However, AI is developing at lightning speed and is widely used in the Agri and Food sector. Therefore, it is important that everyone in the sector acquires a certain degree of basic knowledge about AI. Concepts such as smart farming and big data will play a major role in the next step towards efficient and sustainable food production."
"During the course, it is explained in an accessible way what artificial or artificial intelligence is," adds Lorella van der Hooft of the Dutch AI Coalition. "And how it is already being applied, without you perhaps realizing it yourself. For example, in programming machines so that they can be produced more efficiently and at the same time more sustainably."
Concrete examples
In fact, in practice AI applications are already used so much that the course could be filled with concrete examples. Cows with neck and leg sensors, drones that help in apple growing and robots that can pick exactly the right roses through deep learning. "But in addition to innovative techniques, there are of course challenges and ethical dilemmas. What happens with all the data and how animal-friendly is working with AI models really? These themes are also covered in the course."
Eleven modules
The AI course for the Agri and Food sector consists of eleven interactive modules of 8 to 15 minutes with videos showing practical applications of AI in the sector. The course takes about 2.5 hours in total and the modules consist of an alternation of lectures, videos and interactive elements. The course touches on topics such as big data, algorithms and machine learning and focuses on the question: how is all this applied within the industry? "You don't have to be a computer expert or mathematician to take this course," the initiators tell us. "After completing this course, participants will have a good idea of how AI can be applied in the sector and what that means in concrete terms for someone and their job. You can set your own pace and order and upon completion you will receive a certificate."
From now
The AI course for the agri and food sector was developed in collaboration with Jim Stolze of Lowercase Foundation, who previously developed the AI-Care course and the National AI course. The latter course was completed by more than 300,000 people. The AI course for Agri and Food is now available at https://agrifood.ai-cursus.nl.
Source: Stal & Akker