ARTIFICIAL intelligence is coming to a saleyard near you, if the people at livestock digital platform provider AgriNous have their way.
Agrinous marketing manager Amber Guerini told the Australian Saleyards Conference delegates in Melbourne yesterday she has been doing some trials with artificial intelligence app ChatGPT.
Sjhe said the aim was to eventually embed an artificial intelligence capability within Agrinous software to enable clients to analyse data and look at trends over time.
She showed an example where three months of saleyard cattle price data from this year was compared with the data from 2023, asking ChatGPT to compare the average price for steers and the between the two periods, and with the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator.
“All of you could do this, you’ve all got access to that and use it as a tool to look at what’s trending and what things are doing compared to this time last year.”
Ms Guerini told Sheep Central that AgriNous would probably engineer its own AI model within its app.
“It’s going to be specific to livestock and it has got to be linked to that database within AgriNous.
“It will be trained and engineered, but it will only be as good as what you put into it, so if you’ve got good data going in then it’s going to give you good analytics and insights,” she said.
She said it is sometimes overwhelming for people to decipher industry data.
“They don’t know what’s accurate and what’s true, it’s finding that source of truth.
“So if you know you are using it with your own data it’s going to be as accurate as what you put in there,” she said.
“We want to be innovators and we want to enable our clients with the best tools to not just sell the stock, but to market the stock and to predict what is going to happen and be at the forefront.
“I think being optimistic we’ve seen things like ChatGPT come so far in the last 12-24 months that I think it is not unrealistic to see something within the next three years within the (AgriNous) app.”
AgriNous was established in 2016 to provide cloud-based software for saleyards and livestock agents including collecting data on farms, to scanning, weighing, National Vendor Declaration data entry through to interfacing with third parties at saleyards for compliance, selling and invoicing.
The business started out servicing sheep saleyards and now in sheep and cattle saleyards in all states, with just over 3500 users.
Ms Guerini said according to the Meat & Livestock Australia saleyard survey, AgriNous is servicing 65 percent of the national saleyard throughput this year.
In the last month, the business has started working in three new saleyards, and more were coming on next month, she said.
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