How a japanese cucumber farmer started using AI in 2016

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So here’s the thing about AI it’s not in any way new most businesses have been using it behind the scenes for years to solve real world business problems things like fraud detection recommendation engine when you’re shopping and it’s suggesting similar products you might be interested in um optimizing Logistics all all different kinds of businesses have been optimized with AI it used to be called ml when I joined Google in 2018 there was a case study from 2016 of a Japanese cucumber farmer who built an AI model on tensorflow ran it on Raspberry pies to optimize his cucumber Farm his mom used to spend 8 hours a day sorting cucumbers and this guy was not a tech background but he developed a solution that would sort the Cucumbers had a motor and would and would sort them automatically saving his mom 8 hours every however often she sorted cucumbers I think when the llms came out there was a lot of realization in the consumer space that AI can achieve business goals but businesses aren’t really going to get any money from having a photo of a cat on the moon or something else like Chuck Norris fighting Dolphins um which is funny but not very profitable I think the good thing about the llm craze is that it’s brought attention from businesses to other ways that they can optimize to save money from Ai and if in 2016 a Japanese cucumber farmer can save 8 hours per day so an entire day of labor for one person with some AI there are definitely ways that most businesses can benefit from this it’s just a matter of uncovering them and then applying these AI solutions to them we’ve been working with a number of customers on things that will have incremental maybe double digit improvements but across the organization lots of these small projects will have a outsize impact across the organization and across the industry love to chat to people who have an issue they think would be solvable and see if we can help solve it thanks [Music]

Author: benking

Ben is the managing director and founder @ Aviato Consulting. Ben is a passionate technologist with over 17 years experience working to help transform some of the worlds largest organizations with technology, with experience working across both APAC, and EMEA in multiple industries. He is the founder of a startup with a successful exit, an Army veteran, recreational pilot, startup advisor, and board member. Ben is based in Sydney, Australia.

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