{"id":346208,"date":"2026-01-01T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346208\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:29:08","slug":"harper-adams-university-established-in-1901-looks-to-ai-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346208\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper Adams University established in 1901 looks to AI future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Explaining the uses of AI, Prof Sloan said a farmer growing plants in fields needed to check for pests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Go back even 10 years, you would have had to manually go around and actually look at all of those plants,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now what you can do, is you can take a machine&#8230; you can scan individually, you can compare what you&#8217;re seeing very quickly to what a healthy plant looks like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it was the same with animals, adding: &#8220;A cow can tell you by the way it walks, the way it sits, how it spends its time, whether it&#8217;s OK or not OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It took time and experience for a person to check them, he said, but with cameras, &#8220;we can spot them, we can see them, and we can act really quickly to keep the animals healthy&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explaining the uses of AI, Prof Sloan said a farmer growing plants in fields needed to check for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-346208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}