FAR is bringing growers into the world of AI, with the introduction of a new tool specifically designed to help find and summarise information on the FAR website. The tool, Ask FARAI is a New Zealand first, and is being held up by Amazon Web Services and New Zealand designers Custom-D, as a cutting-edge application of generative AI technology.
Our website contains thousands of research reports and extension documents relevant to growing and harvesting many different crops; as such, identifying the one document that will provide the information required to address a specific question can be tricky.
Ask FARAI solves that problem by i) doing all the searching for you ii) summarising the information available and iii) providing referenced links to the full documents, on the FAR website. Ask FARAI will only consider information from the FAR website so you can be certain that answers are based on independent New Zealand research.
For example, if you Ask FARAI “When should I put N on ryegrass seed crops”, it provides a summarised answer where key points are directly referenced to one of 18 documents on the website. Using the standard search function, you would just get the list of 18 documents and then have to go through them to find specific information.
Ask FARAI went live on 6 August, and can be accessed at www.far.org.nz/ai or from the ribbon at the top of the website homepage. It’s learning all the time, so the more people who use it, the better it will get. Please have a go and use the feedback (thumbs up or thumbs down) buttons to let us know if the answers were useful, accurate or otherwise.
Contact Anna.Heslop@far.org.nz