What Is AI and How Can We Use It for a More Sustainable Future
Artificial intelligence refers to systems with the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. If you own a smartphone and have ever used the smart assistant feature such as Alexa, Bixby or Siri, then you have interacted with AI. Many companies have been using AI tools for data analysis, customers service and marketing. Now businesses have also been using AI to help ensure a more sustainable future. With the popularity surge of AI, we could possibly see new ideas and changes being made to climate change. Major companies such as Google and Facebook, which have been using machine learning to their own data centers to reduce energy consumption by 40 percent. Google has also promised to stop making custom AI tools for oil and gas firm companies. Facebook has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University to use AI for acceleration of quantum mechanical simulations by 1,000x. This could lead to the discovery of new electrocatalyst which can be used ...