Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing launch new generative AI-based knowledge platform for the agricultural industry

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been celebrated as one of the greatest technological achievements of the 21^st century.

“The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the internet and the mobile phone,” writes Bill Gates – co-founder of Microsoft – in a ‘Gates Notes’ blog post.

“Entire industries will reorient around it…and businesses will distinguish themselves by how well they use it,” he adds.

And less than two years after making this comment, he couldn’t be more right. Industries across the globe, from healthcare, manufacturing and finance, to fashion, agriculture and publishing, are utilising AI to transform their business operations.

Paving the way in the UK academic publishing sector is Cambridge-based publisher Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing.

Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing are an academic publisher specialising in publishing edited collections summarising key trends in agricultural science research.

As the business approaches its ten-year anniversary, Managing Director Rob Burleigh has announced that their product portfolio will be growing with the addition of AgNetZero.

“AgNetZero is a brand new intelligent knowledge SaaS solution which is powered by our internationally-trusted content,” says Rob Burleigh, Managing Director of Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing.

Developed alongside UK-based technology partner Librios, AgNetZero equips users with the ability to search across more than 2,300 research documents created by internationally renowned authorities in agricultural and food science working in academia and industry.

Additional features allow subscribers to upload their own documents to a safe and trusted environment to sit alongside the Burleigh Dodds content and perform AI powered analysis to create an array of editable and exportable documents, spanning from research summaries, to presentations, training guides and a range of marketing and communication outputs.

“AgNetZero has added a different dimension to the content we produce,” says Rob Burleigh.

“It has brought the research we publish to life and taken it off the page and screen, allowing users to truly engage with that same research in a way that hasn’t been possible before,” he adds.

Despite the capabilities of AI and the excitement it brings to publishing and other sectors, there remains some uncertainty surrounding its use, namely its misuse and the production of unreliable AI-generated outputs.

“AgNetZero is simply not in that space and we can say that because our platform is ringfenced to only contain the content that we have published which has been peer-reviewed by experts in the sector,” he adds.

For more information about AgNetZero, please contact rob.burleigh@bdspublishing.com

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