Compute Power Needed for AI on the Farm
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
Artificial intelligence is not coming to agriculture. It’s already here. This technology will continue to power more and more operations on the farm. But one of the bottlenecks is having adequate compute power to to make sure technological operations like see and spray or lasers, can keep pace with the speed required to get everything done in time. Chris Walker is the CEO of Untether AI.
Walker…” Like using vision to detect: is that the plant or is that the weed? What's a pest? What's not? Maybe even use lasers, right? The future is here in terms of using that. What holds it back is the computer power. The technology is cool but if it takes two and a half, three to do it. That's not practical. The things that you've envisioned or thought of as science fiction is now coming into reality. People figured out how engineer equipment. Now it's about applying state-of-the-art, computer technology to actually make it run fast, and make it run in a way that is actually usable and economical for you.”
Walker says they make the chips that run AI in the real world to make models run faster, more accurately and with energy efficiency.
