Microsoft Teaches Kids AI Farming So They Can Blame Algorithms For Crop Failure

Microsoft and the National FFA Organization are expanding the FarmBeats for Students program across all 50 states, introducing smart sensors, data science, and AI into agricultural education.

• Microsoft gets an entire generation of future enterprise software customers while they are still young enough to be impressionable.
• FFA gains corporate backing to make high school agriculture classes sound suitably high-tech for modern CVs.
• FarmBeats for Students gives teenagers hands-on experience in collecting soil data they will eventually ignore.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Unless you run a high school agriculture department, this is just standard corporate philanthropy disguised as product marketing.

Read the original: Microsoft and FFA help students use smart sensors and AI to learn about the future of farming and technology