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Re:Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and in... by PaulHoule on Thursday August 17, 2023 @05:04PM (#37168043)
People do all kinds of meta-analysis and literature reviews today, I am sure somebody is already applying A.I. to the document handling for this task but doing a quick search it is hard to differentiate it from literature reviews on the subject of A.I. in agronomy such as

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.1053...

It's a big problem that ChatGPT has seduced a large number of people into thinking chatbots = AI and those people have convinced most other people that it is a scam.

I find 77,000 or so articles on "rice" in PubAg

https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/search?query=any,conta...

Just like many other areas, agriculture responds to knowledge and is a highly competitive international business. For instance, rice is cultivated by very different methods in Louisiana and Bangladesh and rice from either place could make it to your table.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_of_Rice_Intensification

for a method which is heavy on labor input and light on fossil fuel input.

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Re:Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and in... by agronomicon on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:09PM (#37168868)
> I find 77,000 or so articles on "rice" in PubAg

Analyzing this data set with an LLM would be a very good research project.

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Re:Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and in... by PaulHoule on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:16PM (#37168936)
Exactly, and not that hard. My RSS reader has ingested about 250,000 articles from random sources since the beginning of this year and does a cluster analysis of about 50,000 of them every day in under two minutes.
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