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  • 'Precision ag' promised a farming revolution. It's coming, just slowly

    June 13, 2024 |

    St. Louis Public Radio |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Illinois

    A St. Louis-based company, Impossible Sensing, is creating sensors that can be attached to the back of a planter to help farmers understand factors like nutrient level and soil health. It’s a form of precision agriculture, which essentially follows the notion that having more precise data leads to more efficient and sustainable farms.

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  • Researchers race to keep up with improving AI voice clones — and prevent scams

    June 04, 2024 |

    St. Louis Public Radio |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Researchers are developing a program called DeFake that adds subtle noise distortion to people’s voice recordings to prevent artificial intelligence from learning the voice and creating deep fakes with it.

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  • Can AI Help Cut Plastic Waste From the Food System?

    June 03, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    The new Global Plastics AI Policy Tool, developed by plastic waste and ecology experts, uses machine learning to predict how policy interventions like capping production and investing in recycling infrastructure would reduce plastic pollution by 2050. It could be of particular use as countries work on an international, legally binding treaty to address the plastic crisis.

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  • Community solar developers look to artificial intelligence to help manage subscribers and advance equity

    May 29, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States

    Artificial intelligence tools are helping the solar energy company Solstice better serve community solar subscribers and make projects more inclusive for low-income households. The tools use data to predict when subscribers might be facing problems that will likely lead to them leaving the project, such as delays or billing confusion, and vet subscribers based on whether they are likely to pay their bills instead of using their credit scores.

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  • To Improve Fish Welfare, a Startup Blends AI With an Ancient Japanese Fishing Method

    May 24, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The California-based tech startup Shinkei is combining artificial intelligence with an ancient Japanese method called Ike Jime to kill fish quickly with less pain. Alongside improved fish welfare, the method cuts down waste by keeping the fish fresher for longer.

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  • How 2 Teachers Use AI Behind the Scenes to Build Lessons & Save Time

    April 15, 2024 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Franklin Square, New York

    Teachers at John Street School in Franklin Square, New York, are using artificial intelligence-powered tools to craft lesson plans that are tailored to the needs of each student, which they might not have the time to do otherwise. They can quickly adjust a lesson for different reading levels or write worksheets in multiple languages, for example.

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  • PHA: Tech Community Building Product-Oriented Africans

    March 29, 2024 |

    African Change Stories |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

    Product Hub Africa (PHA) empowers people interested in tech by providing education, support, professional network connections, mentorship and community to help people blossom in the tech industry. PHA has partnerships with local secondary schools where they mentor youth directly. Outside of their school partnerships, PHA has 5,000 members with plans to continue expanding.

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  • How Science Sleuths Track Down Bad Research

    March 13, 2024 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    Software like Imagetwin and Proofig AI scan images in scientific studies to flag problematic, manipulated, and duplicated images. This is a difficult task that could take up to an hour to do manually, leading to studies passing peer review that should not have.

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  • Poopspotting: How AI and satellites can detect illegal manure spreading in Wisconsin

    March 07, 2024 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    An artificial intelligence model developed by researchers at Standford University analyzes aerial photographs to detect fields with manure illegally spread on them in the winter. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources can use that information to manually check fields for compliance with regulations that are meant to prevent water contamination.

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  • The Smart Heart: How AI Is Sharpening Cardiovascular Medicine

    March 01, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, Minnesota

    Several hospitals are beginning to use artificial intelligence, like Chat GPT’s medical assistant Suzanne, to make cardiovascular medicine more accurate and effective. AI can detect illnesses that are hard to see with the human eye, interpret test results and make diagnoses quicker and help doctors provide more effective treatment to patients. Since AI emerged in healthcare in 2018, the FDA has approved about 700 AI and machine learning-enabled medical devices.

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