Science
Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions
You can reduce your model’s carbon emissions by being choosy about when and where you train it.
Climate Change
Tech & Society
AI AI, Captain! Mayflower AI Ship Crosses the Atlantic Ocean
An autonomous research ship crossed the Atlantic Ocean — with a few pit stops to address challenges along the way. Built by IBM and marine research nonprofit ProMare, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship 400 (MAS400) last week completed a voyage from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Tech & Society
Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery
Computer vision systems are scanning satellite photos to track construction on the Earth’s surface — an exercise in behavior recognition on a global scale.
Tech & Society
Wind in the Forecast: AI Tool Predicts Wind Turbine Energy Output
Machine learning is making wind power more predictable. Engie SA, a multinational energy utility based in France, is the first customer for an AI-powered tool from Google that predicts the energy output of wind farms.
Science
High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.
Nuclear fusion technology, long touted as an unlimited source of safe, clean energy, took a step toward reality with a machine learning algorithm that molds the fuel in a reactor’s core.
Business
AI Versus the Garbage Heap: How Amazon uses AI to cut waste.
Amazon reported long-term success using machine learning to shrink its environmental footprint. The online retailer developed a system that fuses product descriptions, images, and structured data to decide how an item should be packed for shipping.
Interviews & Essays
Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good
There’s a reason why artificial intelligence is sometimes referred to as “software 2.0”: It represents the most significant technological advance in decades. Like any groundbreaking invention, it raises concerns about the future, and much of the media focus is on the threats it brings.
Machine Learning Research
Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.
DeepMind released three papers that push the boundaries — and examine the issues — of large language models.
Business
Getting a Jump on Climate Change: AI Startups Predict the Economic Impacts of Climate Change
Startups are predicting how climate change will affect global commerce. Companies that specialize in climate analytics are training neural networks to help businesses manage risks posed by a warming globe,
Business
Full-Bodied With Hints of Forest Fire: AI Masks Smoke Flavor in Wine's Tainted by Wildfire
Wineries in areas affected by wildfires are using machine learning to produce vintages that don’t taste like smoke. Some California winemakers are using a service called Tastry to identify grapes tainted by smoke from the state’s surging blazes and recommend blends that will mask the flavor.
Tech & Society
Greener Machine Learning: Here's how AI models can shrink their carbon footprints.
A new study suggests tactics for machine learning engineers to cut their carbon emissions. Led by David Patterson, researchers at Google and UC Berkeley found that AI developers can shrink a model’s carbon footprint a thousand-fold by streamlining architecture...
Tech & Society
Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are developing machine learning tools for the fossil fuel industry even as they pledge to limit greenhouse gas emissions.