Achieving SDG goal of eradicating poverty an Issue in Pakistan, by use of AI technology.
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Achieving SDG goal of eradicating poverty an Issue in Pakistan, by use of AI technology.

The poverty remains central problem in developing countries especially in Pakistan. Where a significant proportion of the population lives below the poverty line .In Pakistan 24.3% of the population lives below the National poverty line in 2015 ,the probability of employed population below $1.90 purchasing power parity a day in 2019 is 2.3% , 4.5% unemployment rate total. Poverty is higher in rural areas 36.3% than in urban areas 22.6%. According to the world united nation development poverty is the core component which creates hunger and lack of food stuff. In today’s world no country is said to be developed and prospered if its majority of the population is living below poverty line.

Artificial intelligence is defined as a branch of computer science that emphasis the development of intelligence machine thinking and working like humans. AI is making a huge impact in all domains of industry. Industries are looking to automate jobs through the use of intelligent machines. The global population is expected to reach more than 9 billion by 2050 which will required an increase in agriculture production by 70% to fulfill the demand. So we need help of technology (a smarter approach) and become more efficient and more productive.

To feed the growing population of Pakistan and helping the country with achieving its SDG goal of poverty eradication AI technology can be used which will increase the agriculture productivity, help yield better crops, control pests, monitor soil, and growing conditions, organize data for farmers, help with the workload, and improve a wide range of agriculture-related tasks in the entire food supply chain bringing efficiency to the system. AI will be a renaissance in agriculture industry of Pakistan by revolutionizing the methods of agriculture from traditional to modern methods.

Use of weather forecasting: By the use of AI Technology weather forecasting can be done which will help the farmer in predicting the right time for sowing the seeds and planning the type of crop that can be grown.

Soil and crop health monitoring system: By the use of AI soil deficiencies including plant pests and diseases can be identified by which farmers can get an idea to use fertilizer to improve harvest quality.

Analyzing crop health by drones: Drone-based Ariel imaging solutions for monitoring crop health is a technique that will helps the farmer to identify pests and bacteria which will result in timely use of pest control and other methods to take required action

Precision Farming and Predictive Analytics: AI will provide proper guidance to farmers about water management, crop rotation, timely harvesting, and type of crop to be grown, optimum planting, pest attacks, and nutrition management. In the future, AI will help farmers evolve into agricultural technologists, using data to optimize yields down to individual rows of plants

Agricultural Robotics: Robots can be used on Agricultural field to perform multitasking in fields, control weeds and to harvest crops at a faster rate and higher volumes than humans.

AI-enabled system to detect pests: Pests determination by satellite imaging using AI algorithms and sending alerts to farmers on their cell phones helps farmers to fight against pests.

Conclusion

Artificial Intelligence if used positively to help solve mankind problem and providing basic necessity i.e. food supply to every Pakistani by educating and training our farmers in this respect we all unitedly can cater the issue of poverty in Pakistan.

Supporting solution by TED talk:

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cmx7V4oIR8&t=842s

SUMMARY OF TED TALK

Richard Socher is an adjunct professor at the Stanford Computer Science Department where he obtained his PhD working on deep learning with Chris Manning and Andrew Ng. He won the best Stanford CS PhD thesis award.

Richard in his ted talk tell us about future and present of AI technology. He first told the audience about the deep learning and its advancement in the market. Deep learning can describe images, can answer visual questions. Than he further explained about powerful application with computer vision. He told that AI will work on radiology too .computer vision and speech recognition are two success of AI and motor intelligence is something that AI is still struggling with. Richard further compared the algorithm of past with present. He further explains about the current research in text summarization. More people are entering the field of AI technology. AI is only a tool for the foreseeable future AI can be use in favor of mankind or in destroying the mankind. If AI used positively it can lead to improved communication, work and access to information. By the use of AI we can automate most of the basic human needs like food, can automate farming, and can build houses automatically. AI must be used positively in helping mankind by preventing negative effects of trained data.