Artificial intelligence has the power to transform all stages of alt-protein development, but it needs a steady diet of data and investment — and it’s a hungry beast.
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Companies use AI to develop virtual models to determine what’s happening inside a bioreactor.
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Is that sprouting plant a weed? Or the crop?
An experienced farmer knows at a glance.
Replacing the farmer’s gaze requires an enormous amount of technology: a mechanized camera on a rig that swivels in all directions, replicating the farmer’s pivot on a muddy heel; a software system that knows when and where to zero in and take measurements, replicating the farmer’s thumbnail estimate; and an even more sophisticated…