AI for Earth launched in the summer of 2017. Over its five-year span, the program empowered individuals and organizations to develop innovative solutions to the way we monitor, model, and ultimately manage Earth’s natural systems through grants, technology, and access to data.
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The Ocean Cleanup was using security cameras to spot debris, but identifying plastics manually was a labor-intensive process. By joining a Microsoft Hackathon for sustainability projects, they were able to build a solution that uses AI to identify and label tens of thousands of images, accelerating how they find and analyze pollution.
Pope Francis on Thursday called for an international treaty to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically, arguing that the risks of technology lacking human values of compassion, mercy, morality and forgiveness are too great. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-victim-ai-generated-imagery-calls-treaty-regulate-105650622
The first AI panic of 2023 set in soon after New Year's Day when classrooms reopened and schools from Seattle to Paris started blocking ChatGPT. Teenagers were already asking the chatbot — released in late 2022 — to compose essays and answer take-home tests. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/2023-year-played-artificial-intelligence-105651001
A central question organisations face is whether, over time, AI technologies will substitute workers by fully replacing human input or complement workers by augmenting human labours.