AI can help The world in many ways, it is in the hands of everyone.
I believe that you are also using ChatGPT with some of your daily routine tasks like choosing the suitable kind of dessert.
Or even doing something related to your job.
Have you ever thought that AI can help the world in facing climate change ?
Let me explain further for you, the last decade was full of severe climate changes.
For example, some parts of Europe are facing extreme cold weather with snowy weather which extends for days.
While extreme weather events are making tomato growers in central India much worried due to the severe droughts .
That led to significant crop loss, impacting the livelihoods of local farmers
On the other side of the world, Silicon Valley startup ClimateAi is developing an artificial intelligence platform.
In order to evaluate how vulnerable crops are to warming temperatures over the next two decades.
The tool uses data on the climate, water and soil of a particular location to measure how viable the landscape will be for growing in the coming years.
Maharashtra, India, was one of its first case studies in 2021.
Farmers could go into the ClimateAi app and input what seed they were growing and where they wanted to plant it.
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30% decrease in tomato output due to extreme heat and drought.
ClimateAi ran simulations and found that extreme heat and drought would lead to an approximately 30% decrease in tomato output.
And it warned growers in Maharashtra, India that they should change their strategy for the next 2 decades.
The results proved pivotal — tomato producers adjusted their business plans by switching to more climate-resilient seed varieties and shifting the times they plant tomato seeds.
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Finding new growing locations usually takes a while for farmers affected by climate change, but “now it can happen in a matter of minutes, and it also saves them a lot of cost,” according to Himanshu Gupta, who grew up in India and is the CEO and co-founder of ClimateAi.
“The way we think about AI is it’s a time and effectiveness multiplier to the solutions for climate change,” Gupta said.
Experts say the technology is set to revolutionize countless industries.
But climate researchers have for years been thinking, how AI can help the world by analyzing enormous amounts of data.
And also complete complex tasks in ways similar to how a human might.
Which will help them better understand and address the changing climate.
AI can help the world by accelerating everything from reducing pollution to improving weather models.
Efficiencies is one thing that AI is very good at, optimizing decisions, optimizing resources,” said Fengqi You, chair professor at Cornell University’s engineering school.
“It’s a system that has very strong predictive capabilities that could be tremendously helpful in many domains, ranging from (understanding) small-scale molecules … to broader climate systems to help us fight climate change.”
With the breakneck pace at which the planet has been warming.
Accelerating the speed at which the world deploys and implements solutions is crucial.
But for all of AI’s promise, the infrastructure that supports the technology.
As well as the data centers filled with rows of powerful, energy-sucking computers could be a strain on the environment.
Experts say software engineers must work closely with climate scientists to find a balance.
It’s definitely something that has to be considered as this trade-off,” said Kara Lamb, an associate research scientist at Columbia University’s earth and environmental engineering department.
Still, “the positives outweigh the negatives in terms of applying it to these types of approaches.”
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