NeurIPS 2020 | Machine Learning Vs Climate Change
Organizers of NeurIPS 2020 (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) see machine learning as an invaluable tool in the fight against climate change.
Tag: AI for Good
Bengio and Mila Researchers Use GAN Images to Illustrate Impact of Climate Change
In a bid to raise awareness of the threats posed by climate change, the Mila team recently published a paper that uses GANs to generate images of how climate events may impact our environments — with a particular focus on floods.
AI In Wildlife Conservation
Image recognition technology in particular has come to play a valuable role in wildlife conservation, where endangered species are tallied and tracked so their numbers and migrations can be more accurately measured and understood.
Head of R&D Jia Li Leaves Google Cloud AI
Head of R&D of Google Cloud AI Jia Li has left her position with the company. Li informed Synced in a text message yesterday and the Google team confirmed her departure this morning.
Pittsburgh Mayor vs Uber: Can Stricter Safety Regulations End the Impasse?
David Danks commented on self-driving vehicle testing on the streets of his Pittsburgh neighbourhood: “They’re boring. You don’t notice them anymore because you see them five to ten times every day. People started to walk more and more frequently directly in front of the Uber cars, disproportionately more than they would ever in front of a human-driven car.”