A Japanese farmer who left his city job as an engineer to return to his parents' cucumber farm has created an AI system to potentially replace the laborious task of sorting the vegetables manually. Makoto Koike used Google's TensorFlow to build the AI system, which at present has an accuracy rate of only 70% so each cucumber still has to be checked by hand – mostly by Koike's mother, who sometimes sorts up to more than one cucumbers a day. However, Koike hopes to improve his system enough to relieve his mother of her duties in the future.
A Japanese farmer who left his city job as an engineer to return to his parents' cucumber farm has created an AI system to potentially replace the laborious task of sorting the vegetables manually. Makoto Koike used Google's TensorFlow to build the AI system, which at present has an accuracy rate of only 70% so each cucumber still has to be checked by hand – mostly by Koike's mother, who sometimes sorts up to 4,000 cucumbers a day. However, Koike hopes to improve his system enough to relieve his mother of her duties in the future.