While Alibaba launched its ET Agricultural Brain back in June 06th, 2018. BusinessWire

However as reported in IEEE Spectrum, Corn can provide very challenging classification problem

“Let’s say we are building a deep learning algorithm to detect this corn. And we take lots of pictures of kernels to give it. Say we pick those kernels in central Illinois. But, one mile over, the farmer planted a slightly different hybrid which has slightly different coloration of yellow. Meanwhile, this other farm harvested three days later in a field five miles away; it’s the same hybrid, but it also looks different. Julian Sanchez on IEEE Spectrum

Questions:

• Beyond announcements, any successes or lessons learned which have been published since June 2018?