AI for a climate-smart future

人工智能打造气候智能型未来

Round Table China

2024-07-04

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Think AI is just about chatbots and social media algorithms? Think again! We're diving deep into how artificial intelligence can take on the climate crisis head-on, while also confronting its own environmental downsides. How can we harness the potential of AI to combat climate change, without making it worse? / Why is pop music getting shorter and shorter (19:52)? On the show: Heyang, Yushun & Josh Cotterill
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  • discussion keeps the world's turning this is round table you're listening to round table with myself her young I'm joined by Yushun

  • in the studio and Josh Caderrell on the line coming up think AI is just about chatbots and social media algorithms think again we're diving deep into how

  • artificial intelligence is taking on the climate crisis head on while also confronting its own environmental downsides how can we harness the

  • potential of AI to come back climate change without making it worse and short video platforms may have reshaped our musical tastes and appetites some argue

  • that pop songs should be no longer than two minutes and 30 seconds are we losing something gaining something or just evolving with the times your voice

  • matters and we would love to hear it in our heart-to-heart segment got a question something you're itching to share fire up that voice memo and hit us

  • up at EZ FMA roundtable at foxmail.com our podcast listeners can find us at roundtable china on Apple podcast now let's move on to the next topic of

  • discussion today as record breaking temperatures and extreme weather events become the new normal could artificial intelligence or AI offer a beacon of

  • hope with its potential to provide innovative solutions AI may play a crucial role in mitigating and adapting to global environmental changes but it's

  • also devouring energy at an alarming rate guys what is the role of AI in combating climate change actually you know at first I thought AI aiding

  • environmental protection was just a fluffy and hard to achieve concept you know how could natural phenomena be explained with numbers but later after

  • some searching I found that AI might indeed be able to contribute to a environmental protection because because I saw that according to an article from

  • World Economic Forum the nature of climate change management is actually data management as we need data to describe understand and predict climate

  • AI excels in these kind of handling vast amounts of data from various sources such as satellite imagery weather sensors and historical climate records this

  • capability allows AI to generate insights and predictions about climate patterns and facilitating better decision-making for you know mitigation and

  • adaptation strategies so these are eye-opening I think yeah well same question to you Josh what do you see as AI's role in combating climate change I

  • think that it plays a huge role when it comes to an issue as complex as climate change that really affects everything and it will affect every single facet of

  • daily life for an individual and society as a whole and we know that AI what it does in a very simplistic way it's the thing that it does best is process

  • data right and then give us answers and hopefully solutions based on data that it processes and I think that when it comes to climate change this is really

  • what people are trying to do right we're trying to collect data about for example temperature changes about the consumption of certain product farming