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Can artificial intelligence stop burning the planet?
It has both good and better news about the answer to the question.
However, this column is written in the end of an UK Heatwave, another company, another, let’s start with more good thoughts that EU can help cut a non-meaningless part of global transport, power and food waste.
So something new says paper British economist Nicholas Stern, from a study group worth reading a number of.
For a start, transport, power and food sectors are about half of global emissions, so reduces their emissions.
Researchers believe that AI systems can build in parts of these sectors, increase the use of renewable energy users on power grids; Identify the proteins that tastize the meat growing in the laboratory; and to make electric cars more affordable (with cheaper batteries) and desirable (predict the best charging areas).
This can cause the EU waste to reduce the annual issue between 3.2 and 5.4 billion tons of wastes in these areas. Researchers say that 3.2 billion tons of incision, which we have carried out that the electric AC EU and data centers will be superior to the approximate increase of waste emissions.
These findings are not theoretical. Google’s Deepmind Artificial Intelligence Team says Technology has already increased the value of the wind farm, and Google has been able to use the data center for cooling 40 percent.
Depth Nobel Prize-Searchers helped researchers predict millions of proteins in a progress that could accelerate the use of meat alternatives.
In addition, unlike previous studies trying to measure the prospects of the EI’s planet, Stern’s peers were reviewed and not made Microsoft, Google or another company that produces AI products.
Showing the benefits of Stern, early, healthy climate movements, indicating the benefits of the environment, the eponym is very superior to the world’s pace and scale of the world, remains a voice of a reputable climate policy unless the world’s tempo and scale.
The less good news for the AI and climate change brings us.
First Point: AI climate technology that looks great in the laboratory can fight in real life. This week, a meta research project, lifted false hopes in connection with the removal of air from air, claimed that the approach was not difficult.
The second point: AI can be good for the other side. Energy companies say technology is in Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company “really make a great difference to their operations. “
It is impossible to keep this stop because of a larger obstacle to use AI to be good for the climate: money.
The compilation of the AI system for a company like Saudi Aramco can make a very commercial meaning for today’s technological companies. Even if you do a lot like researchers such as Jack Kelly, even if a developing market network operator is more.
Kelly, in the His words“Terrible” with climate change and was an engineer in Google Deepmind, when the group in 2017 obvious This was in early talks with England’s national grid to help utilize the use of the UK’s renewable energy.
“This first few meetings were really excited,” Kelly said. “He felt like we could do something really interesting.”
Unfortunately, efforts were rejected for unknown reasons. Depemind refused to comment It does not know that The intellectual property may have disagreement. The UK’s energy operator did not respond in the last date.
Kelly, Deepmind and left to build a joint Open climate correctionNon-profit group that develops AI systems to reduce energy waste.
Its solar energy forecasting technology is used by the power system operator in Rajasthan and India province Britain, where Kelly says The operators help reduce waste by allowing less gas generation schedule schedule. His group will help the planet, but as he said, “It is another thing that will say that this scenario should have to play a lot to play.”
The paper of Stern also recognizes that the market forces will not be able to unlock only the full potential of the AI. It is what governments, cities, grid operators or other large players call customers for AI technologies. This argument is compulsory. Now you have to see this happened.
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