AI and Ag

One, thing about artificial intelligence where there is a significant amount of data. Ai can be applied. Kate Kate Sixt, executive director for USDA's office of the Chief Scientist. Speaker 2: Between our farmers, our researchers, our satellites, our moisture detection, all of that, we have so much data and that data can all be mined in a way that we can create models from it that give us a predictive capability. The Trump administration is bringing the power of AI to bear on ambitious, multidisciplinary challenges, creating a platform for federal agencies to collaborate and achieve breakthroughs that would be impossible if attempted alone. And harnessing AI as a scientific tool will just revolutionize the way scientific research is conducted, including research that's conducted here at USDA and also with our partners across the industry and academia, aiming to double America's R&D output and translate scientific breakthroughs into practical benefits for the American people. Speaker 1: As well as the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority. Usda is expected to announce later this year the launch of an agricultural, National Science and Technology Challenge. Speaker 2: One of the places where we decided to really take a closer look at how we could apply artificial intelligence in the science of agriculture is in plant science, and we're really looking to call on universities, industry stakeholders to help build new AI tools that can translate that huge amount of germplasm or seed data that the agency collects into something meaningful that we can use.