Prize-winning U of T student team uses AI to beat banana blight
Computer Science Prize-winning U of T student team uses AI to beat banana blight A team of U of T undergraduate students earned top prize in a student-organized global AI competition for their plan to use AI to forecast infections of black Sigatoka, a fungal disease that blackens bananas from the inside out (photo by Neil Palmer) Fuelled by a changing climate, plant pathogens encounter increasingly favourable conditions to spread and wreak havoc on global crop yields. But could artificial intelligence help predict the spread of disease, buying farmers valuable time to take preventative ...
Source: utoronto.ca