AI is useful for climate change countermeasures, political campaigns, war damage analysis between Russia and Ukraine, etc.
In recent years, the movement to use AI in all fields is progressing, and there are many people who are wondering, 'How can AI be used in the field that interests me?'
Generative AI Brings Big Bucks, Assessing Ukraine War Damage, Candidates Target Voters, Translating 1,000 Languages
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◆ Measures against global warming
As measures against global warming that have been proposed so far, in addition to suppressing greenhouse gas emissions and stopping deforestation, there is also a positive measure of 'reflecting sunlight into space'. Among them, a method called ' stratospheric aerosol injection ' is to spray aerosols such as sulfur dioxide from aircraft flying in the stratosphere and reflect sunlight into space. By slowing the rate at which the sun heats the planet, we can buy time to achieve reductions in carbon emissions.
In this effort, AI can be used to control the high-altitude drones used to disperse aerosols, and it could also help model the effects of stratospheric aerosol injections and decide when and where to do so. ... apparently ...
In recent years, methods of reflecting sunlight are being seriously considered as a countermeasure against global warming, but Andrew Ng, who writes the newsletter for THE BATCH, points out that not only politicians but also engineers and AI researchers are working on global warming countermeasures. said he hopes to work on
The White House is preparing a plan to bounce sunlight into space to reduce the effects of global warming - GIGAZINE
◆Creative industry
In recent years, AI that generates images and text has appeared one after another, and some startups have succeeded in obtaining a large amount of investment. For example, the valuation of Stability AI , which developed Stable Diffusion , an image generation AI, is said to be about 1 billion dollars (about 147 billion yen), and in the funding round in October 2022, 101 million dollars (about 14.9 billion dollars) yen) was raised .
In addition, Jasper, a developer of Jasper.ai , which generates content marketing sentences and catchphrases with AI, successfully raised $ 125 million (about 18.4 billion yen) in a series A funding round. In addition, Microsoft plans to strengthen its capital investment in OpenAI at the AI Research Institute, and Shutterstock, a major photo material company, will pay rewards to the authors of partnerships with OpenAI and learning source materials.
'OpenAI', which develops image generation AI 'DALL E', and 'Shutterstock', one of the largest photo materials and stock photos, have partnered to provide image generation functions to users within the next few months & authors of learning source materials To build a mechanism to pay rewards to - GIGAZINE
In this way, while the presence of AI is increasing in the creative industry, there are also voices saying that image generation AI is infringing on the rights of artists. There is also a severe eye on AI, such as `` GitHub Copilot '', a code completion AI learned from GitHub code, facing a class action lawsuit.
AI 'GitHub Copilot' finally learned with GitHub code faces class action - GIGAZINE
◆ Political campaign
In the United States, where midterm elections to elect members of Congress and others are on the horizon, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are using AI for political campaigns. According to the New York Times , consulting companies can use AI to analyze voter profiles to identify ``voters who may change their political party''. Political parties can use this result to conduct election campaigns that emphasize policies that are effective in changing party affiliation.
In addition, in the 2022 South Korean presidential election, both the ruling and opposition parties created “AI avatars” and launched various videos in which the avatars appeared. Furthermore, in India, a strategy to appeal to voters has appeared by releasing ``deep fake videos in which the party leader speaks to voters in various local languages''.
Regarding the use of AI in elections, THE BATCH said, ``Modeling personal preferences with machine learning can be a powerful mechanism for persuasion, but it can be difficult to manipulate people into voting based on lies and distortions. We support the position that strict transparency requirements are necessary when political campaigns use AI.'
◆Analysis of damage in the agricultural sector due to war
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has continued since February 2022, has dealt a major blow to agricultural production in Ukraine, a global agricultural exporter. A team from Yale University's School of Public Health and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has built an AI model to detect grain storage facilities from aerial photographs, identifying facilities damaged by Russian attacks.
According to the analysis, 75 of the 344 grain storage facilities in Ukraine were damaged before the move, and an estimated 3.07 million tonnes of grain storage capacity was lost, equivalent to about 15% of Ukraine's total. .
In addition, Ukraine is also promoting the use of AI in war, such as reporting that it is using facial recognition AI technology to identify the identity of Russian soldiers who died in battle. THE BATCH said, ``War is a terrible thing.It is nice to have AI record the damage of the invading army, and I hope that the record will lead to appropriate compensation payments.'' .
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine says that Ukraine uses facial recognition AI technology to identify the identity of Russian soldiers killed in action - GIGAZINE
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