When His Grandfather’s Farm Was Destroyed By an Invasive Plant, This 17-Year-Old Entrepreneur Came Up With an AI-Powered Solution

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Determined to avoid completing 50 tediously long multiplication problems, Elias used Python to create a program that could do it for him.

But that was just the beginning.

As a freshman in , Elias encountered another problem in need of a solution while visiting his grandfather’s rice farm in . Because the farm is located in Kuttanad, a town that lies below sea level, it’s especially vulnerable when it rains or floods β€” an increasing issue with the shift in monsoon seasons.

That’s exactly what happened during Elias’s trip that summer.

“The floods actually brought in an invasive plant from the upper regions,” Elias tells Entrepreneur. “And that’s known as Giant Salvinia. My grandfather wasn’t able to identify that early enough, and as a result, that plant just overpopulated the entire farm.”

Elias began to learn more about invasive species, ultimately discovering just how many issues they cause across the globe β€” and realizing that AI could be the answer.

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