Google is all over this -- there are at least two science-fiction level videos on YouTube of actual field experiments using ML, each with a very non-USA/third world person narrating.. the view count is in the low four digits both times
one of them is related to a paper in Nature this year on "democratizing ML" .. the MOSAIK project iir
edit- hilariously, Google Search wont let me look for MOSAIK instead correcting the spelling.. and when forced, many similarly named projects that are not it, are ahead.. the one referenced here is
A generalizable and accessible approach to machine learning with global satellite imagery
one of them is related to a paper in Nature this year on "democratizing ML" .. the MOSAIK project iir
edit- hilariously, Google Search wont let me look for MOSAIK instead correcting the spelling.. and when forced, many similarly named projects that are not it, are ahead.. the one referenced here is