Google Research(@GoogleResearch):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:

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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: