NZ AI tech to eavesdrop on Chinese pigs

NZ AI tech to eavesdrop on Chinese pigs
MACSO founder Saba Samiei (centre) seeks to mimic the five senses using AI. (Image: Brenden O'Connell)
Pattrick Smellie
A US private equity-backed Auckland company, MACSO, is installing its artificial intelligence electronic “ear” to monitor respiratory symptoms on Chinese pig farms.The pilot is a rare instance of New Zealand sharing digital advances with China for a technology that has proven successful in trials at US pig farms, which used the technology to improve animal health.The low-cost pilot is being conducted at a Chinese government demonstration pig farm in the eastern province of Jinhua and "a pig farm tech solution provider who curre...

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