An innovation and expert Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) system, has been presented by Bayer agronomists and proprietary data to benefit farmers, agronomic advisors, and other industry users. Bayer’s expert GenAI system is changing the game, making better information more quickly and readily available. Bayer AgPowered Services bring capabilities to support regulatory and sustainability reporting and now include a global weather dataset in the last 40 years.
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition. In line with its mission, “Health for all, hunger for none”, the company’s products and services are designed to help people and the planet thrive by supporting efforts to master the major challenges presented by a growing and aging global population. Bayer’s expert GenAI system is making better information more quickly and readily available to farmers. Bayer recently announced the pilot of an expert GenAI system to benefit farmers and up-level agronomists in their daily work. The company has been using proprietary agronomic data to train a large language model (LLM) with years of internal data, insights from thousands of trials within its vast testing network, and centuries of aggregated experience from Bayer agronomists around the world.
This expert system is to quickly and accurately answer questions relating to agronomy, farm management, and Bayer agricultural products. Instead of a time-consuming process, the intuitive system responds to natural language and can generate expert information within seconds. Validated by agronomists, the pilot is already unlocking productivity for Bayer teams in the United States while significantly outperforming out-of-the-box LLMs currently serving the agricultural market. The Chief Information Officer and Head of Digital Transformation and Information Technology for Bayer’s Crop Science Division, Amanda McClerren, stated that “Our unique GenAI system has the potential to serve agronomists and benefit farmers all over the world, further advancing AI as an indispensable technology for agriculture.
“We’ll continue to use traditional AI to develop better products, and we’re also committed to harnessing new GenAI technology in a thoughtful way that augments and supports knowledgeable experts across the industry, bringing value to farmers and those who serve them”, he added. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft as leading technology partner and Ernst & Young (EY) as an industry partner, Bayer is exploring ways to integrate the expert GenAI system into its digital offerings, and the company anticipates broad opportunities for collaboration with other agricultural offerings and partners.
