How does an Academy Award winner with two named asteroids build AI for science?
In the latest
@latentspacepod episode, Google’s John Platt discusses:
• Fighting climate change with AI, from airplane contrail reduction (those little white lines behind planes that contribute ~1% of human-caused warming) to fire detection with FireSat satellites.
• Google helping pioneer the application of data to track disease progression, and how that journey has come full circle: our research team's Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), using Gemini and Monte Carlo Tree Search, achieved top marks in recent CDC benchmarks for forecasting COVID and flu cases a week in advance.
• How the field of AI in science has evolved and what lessons he's learned
• His advice for young scientists, including his own son
Listen to the full episode: