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The Agrimor platform by Malaysia-based Aerodyne allows independent farmers and agriculture service providers to use drones for agriculture seeding, spraying, plant analysis, and mapping, which can help increase crop yields by as much as 67%.
Users in Malaysia and Indonesia are leveraging Agrimor to rapidly identify crop issues like under-irrigation or disease, and deploy fertilisers or pesticides more efficiently to save resources and ultimately drive food security and farmland profitability.
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Agrimor is powered by Aerodyne’s Dronos, an end-to-end drone service platform built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Besides agriculture companies, Dronos can help telecommunications, surveillance, logistics and energy industries onboard, analyse, and make sense of drone data to optimise operations, drive efficiencies and conduct aerial inspections.
Aerodyne is looking to experiment with AWS’s generative AI capabilities to build a large language model that can help companies better plan drone flights and visualise close to one petabyte of drone data. This includes insights from digital twins, which combine images of physical assets and environmental data in real time. As such, mobile phone operators can use the Dronos platform to carry out more timely preventive maintenance using fewer workers under safer conditions, without having to shut down cellular towers and interrupt service.
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Generative AI is expected to be prevalent in the future – be it as a standalone feature or embedded into existing apps. So, it is critical to understand how to utilise it well in your job. Here are some free online training programmes that can kickstart your generative AI upskilling journey.
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AWS Educate and AWS Skill Builder host eight AI and generative AI courses for a wide range of audiences. Business users can attend the training on “Introduction to Generative AI” or “Generative AI learning plan for decision makers”. Meanwhile, developers can consider courses such as “Low-code machine learning on AWS” or “Building generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock”.
These courses are part of AWS’s AI Ready initiative that aims to provide free AI skills training and education to two million people globally by 2025.
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IBM SkillsBuild’s generative AI coursework includes prompt writing, getting started with machine learning, improving customer service with AI, and generative AI in action. The platform also offers a chatbot that supports learners throughout their journeys, and tailored learning paths based on each learner’s personal preferences and experiences.
Upon course completion, participants will be awarded IBM-branded digital credentials that are recognised by potential employers.
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Complete the AI skills quest on Salesforce’s Trailhead to learn AI fundamentals and become an AI whiz if you’re keen. The generative AI basics course will let you explore the capabilities of the technology and understand the technology ecosystem that enables the rapid and safe development of generative AI.
