Artificial intelligence technologies are now being crafted specifically for the cannabis industry, and boosters say these two business spheres are on the cusp of a revolutionary convergence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
New applications of AI in various aspects of the cannabis biz \u2014 from cultivation to marketing to financing \u2014 are being unveiled at a dizzying clip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Royce Birnbaum, co-founder of CEAD, a Phoenix-based company that develops artificial intelligence applications for the cannabis industry addressed the technology with\u00a0Grit Daily<\/a>. CEAD seemingly does not have its own website yet, but is said to be testing its technologies at an R&D center, where the focus is on cultivation. Their systems monitor plant nutrition, growth rates and life cycles. The collected data helps determine feeding and pruning schedules and head off such phenomena as pest outbreaks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOne struggle most growers are facing is\u2026the need to have successful, continuous cultivation cycles without potential for deviation or disaster as we see so often in the industry,\u201d Birnbaum said. \u201cCEAD provides any grow operation an unparalleled ability to predict when to water, fertilize and harvest. This will enable an upsurge in quality, while reducing manpower needed to maintain each plant, as well as give a comprehensive overview of all operations and outcomes related to cannabis cultivation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n An overview of evolving AI applications for cannabis in\u00a0Medium<\/a>\u00a0notes that devices such as high-resolution crop sensors are being used to give accurate growroom conditions, while robotics are employed to automate or remotely control aspects of plant care.\u00a0<\/p>\n Medium cites the Israeli start-up\u00a0Seedolab<\/a>, which is offering a self-contained automated hydroponic cannabis \u201cgrow box.\u201d As\u00a0Cannabis Now noted<\/a>\u00a0last year, the company is plugging the net-linked device as the world\u2019s first fully automated organic cannabis cultivation product.\u00a0<\/p>\n A similar overview on the tech site\u00a0Produvia<\/a>\u00a0says \u201cAutomated Marijuana Operations\u201d can \u201ctrack the growth rate of cannabis plants in their vegetative stage using machine vision and artificial intelligence.\u201d This methodology can also \u201crecommend malting setting and schedules based on CO2, temperature, humidity and PH using artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT\u2019s).\u201d Montreal-based\u00a0Motorleaf<\/a>\u00a0is named as one of the companies pioneering this kind of hi-tech growroom monitoring.<\/p>\n Medium lists several applications beyond the growroom. In Canada, more than 30,000 different strains are being offered on the legal market, often leaving medicinal users at a loss as to which is best for their specific needs or condition. AI is being used to parse existing data from studies and peer-reviewed journals to match strains to symptoms and ailments.\u00a0Namaste Technologies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Citizen Green<\/a>\u00a0are named as companies developing such systems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The latter has teamed up with a firm called with\u00a0Spartans AI to devise the app\u00a0Prescriptii<\/a>\u00a0for this purpose. A\u00a0promo video<\/a>\u00a0for the app on YouTube says it \u201ctransforms the patient-retailer relationship and creates better medical outcomes while driving business growth by leveraging innovative technologies and a cryptocurrency-based loyalty rewards program.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n User reports on effects from particular strains build up a database that over time will refine the process of connecting patients and products \u2014 a method that has been\u00a0used by researchers before<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Produvia review calls this a system of \u201ccustom tailored marijuana strains\u201d that can \u201cfind weed strains best suited to treat symptoms (insomnia, asthma and cancer) by reading peer-reviewed medical journals and surfacing relevant studies on cannabinoids\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n CNBC<\/a>\u00a0reported on another app called\u00a0Potbot<\/a>\u00a0that uses AI to \u201cread\u201d through medical journals to find studies on cannabinoids, pairing 37 symptoms with branded cannabis strains.\u00a0<\/p>\n Potbotics<\/a>\u00a0CEO David Goldstein said the company has raised $5 million to date. The app is available in Apple\u2019s\u00a0App Store<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Google Play<\/a>\u00a0store.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe definitely see there\u2019s interest in the industry, for sure,\u201d Goldstein told Produvia. \u201cIt\u2019s one that has real potential in the United States and internationally. A lot of investors like non-cannabis touching entities, because they feel like they are hedging their bets a little bit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The financial end of the biz is of course also utilizing AI. Produvia reports that researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens, are developing an app to \u201cpredict stock markets based on social media mentions of #marijuana using data mining.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n There is definitely a sense of anxiety underlying the enthusiasm here, however. In a\u00a0YouTube exercise<\/a>\u00a0in mutual promotion, Lior Romanowsky, founder and CEO of Spartans, was interviewed by Yael Rozencwajg, CEO of its partner\u00a0Blockchain Israel<\/a>. Romanowsky said cannabis companies \u201care at a point where they understand that f they don\u2019t implement artificial intelligence today or tomorrow, they will be at a disadvantage relative to all their competitors\u2026 and that\u2019s really crucial.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n And amid this seeming inexorability, the same questions are raised about potential social displacement caused by automation of the cannabis industry as in any other economic sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n A March 2017 headline in the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0vindicated what many Americans have long intuited: \u201cEvidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs.\u201d The story quoted an MIT study that found: \u201cRobots are to blame for up to 670,000 lost manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 2007\u2026 and that number will rise because industrial robots are expected to quadruple.\u201d In some areas, \u201ceach robot per thousand workers decreased employment by 6.2 workers and wages by 0.7 percent,\u201d although nationally the effects were smaller, because jobs were created in other places. In Detroit, \u201ceach robot per thousand workers decreased employment by three workers and wages by 0.25 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n This inevitably brings to mind the recent news from British Columbia, where the leading Canadian licensed producer\u00a0Canopy Growth<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0shut down two huge greenhouse facilities<\/a>, laying off hundreds of workers. The decision seems to have been informed by a determination that the market had been overestimated, and that outdoor cultivation is more cost-effective. But in the near future, the lure of robot-grown cannabis may also enter the accounting of downsizing and worker lay-offs.\u00a0<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, do you think growing cannabis will become something that is fully automated? <\/p>\n The post Cannabis & Artificial Intelligence: The Arrival of Robopot?<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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