{"id":167874,"date":"2023-07-20T06:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T11:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-role-of-ai-in-creating-a-more-sustainable-food-system"},"modified":"2023-07-20T06:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T11:23:18","slug":"the-role-of-ai-in-creating-a-more-sustainable-food-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-role-of-ai-in-creating-a-more-sustainable-food-system","title":{"rendered":"The Role Of AI In Creating A More Sustainable Food System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-role-of-ai-in-creating-a-more-sustainable-food-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Bryton Shang, CEO, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/aquabyte.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/aquabyte.ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Aquabyte\"><em>Aquabyte<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are facing a daunting task. The world will have to feed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/insights\/how-sustainably-feed-10-billion-people-2050-21-charts#:~:text=There%20will%20be%20nearly%2010,than%20there%20were%20in%202010.\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/insights\/how-sustainably-feed-10-billion-people-2050-21-charts#:~:text=There%20will%20be%20nearly%2010,than%20there%20were%20in%202010.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"10 billion mouths\">10 billion mouths<\/a> by 2050, but our current methods are unsustainable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/insights\/5-questions-about-agricultural-emissions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/insights\/5-questions-about-agricultural-emissions-answered\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Eleven percent\">Eleven percent<\/a> of global emissions come from agriculture. Water, land and biodiversity are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/state-of-biodiversity-for-food-agriculture\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/state-of-biodiversity-for-food-agriculture\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"rapidly declining\">rapidly declining<\/a>. And more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/06-07-2022-un-report--global-hunger-numbers-rose-to-as-many-as-828-million-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/06-07-2022-un-report--global-hunger-numbers-rose-to-as-many-as-828-million-in-2021\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"800 million people\">800 million people<\/a> continue to suffer from hunger.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most exciting technological developments of today is AI. The applications of vertical AI\u2014which is trained to deeply understand a single industry\u2014are limitless. In my earlier career, I harnessed the power of AI for financial markets, then for cancer treatments. In my current work, I think a lot about how AI can help us tackle another complicated behemoth: the food system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryton Shang, CEO, Aquabyte. We are facing a daunting task. The world will have to feed 10 billion mouths by 2050, but our current methods are unsustainable. Eleven percent of global emissions come from agriculture. Water, land and biodiversity are rapidly declining. And more than 800 million people continue to suffer from hunger. One of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}