Can AI inspire a farm-specific New Year’s resolution?Can AI inspire a farm-specific New Year’s resolution?

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly making its mark in the agriculture industry, with innovations that can do everything from weed identification to maximizing irrigation efficiencies and more accurately predicting yields. These AI applications have been carefully developed over the span of years by a handful of agtech companies.

Other AI endeavors are taking a more crowd-sourced approach. One such is a tool called Chat GPT from a company called OpenAI. Users enter a prompt, and the program spits out copy based on that prompt. It’s ultimately up to each user’s imagination.

The collective output has been widely variable so far. Chat GPT has generated everything from fake movie scripts to poetry, short stories, how-to wikis, PowerPoint presentations and much more.

If this technology can help a would-be Hollywood screenwriter, why not see what it can do for farmers? As a seasonal proof-of-concept, we entered the prompt: “Create a list of practical New Year’s resolutions specific to farmers.”

The results were mixed (and somewhat repetitive), but here’s a summary of the top ideas:

Again, this list could be sharpened a bit, but considering it was generated through AI in a matter of seconds, it’s really not too shabby!

Do you regularly make New Year’s resolutions? If the above ideas don’t inspire, you may also look to crowdsource one by looking at the most common resolutions. According to goskills.com, the most common resolutions (for everyone, not just farmers) include exercising more, losing weight, getting organized, learning a new skill or hobby, or “living life to the fullest” (which obviously could mean any number of things).

And studies tend to suggest that a minority of Americans even bother to make a New Year’s resolution at all – only around 39% do so, by one account.

Either way, we’re wishing you the best in 2023! Thank you all for being loyal readers in 2022 – we appreciate you.