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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 236/10

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Zhinong AI: A Design-Science Study of an AI-Enabled Agricultural Decision-Support Platform for Smallholder Production

Researchers present Zhinong AI, an integrated agricultural decision-support platform designed for smallholder farmers in China that combines image-based crop disease diagnosis, natural-language question answering, and farm management tools. The study proposes a structured research framework for validating AI agricultural systems but lacks measured field performance data, instead contributing governance guidelines for data provenance, model risk, and adoption frameworks.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 55/10

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Fine-Tuning and Evaluating Conversational AI for Agricultural Advisory

Researchers developed a hybrid AI architecture for agricultural advisory that separates factual retrieval from conversational delivery, using supervised fine-tuning on expert-curated agricultural knowledge. The system showed improved accuracy and safety for smallholder farmers while achieving comparable results to frontier models at lower cost.