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What is the potential of artificial intelligence in advancing climate solutions? 🤔💭🤖🌱 The Bonn AI & Climate Expert Meeting brings you this interesting discussion, focusing on developing & least developed countries! Register to join virtually: https://lnkd.in/eV2hMRRy

We are excited to be one of Climate Change AI's 2023 Innovation Grantees in partnership with June Lukuyu at the University of Washington. This project, based in #Ghana, aims at a cost-effective solution involving machine learning algorithms to detect and localize distribution grid losses, particularly in the low-voltage networks where most issues occur. Identifying such issues promptly can better enable grid operators in Ghana and elsewhere to improve #gridreliability and effectively meet power demand, lowering both costs and associated greenhouse gas emissions. More details on this project at the intersection of #energy, #climatechange, and #AI are here: https://lnkd.in/ghmcNKea

Climate and AI are two of the most important issues of our time. Sasha Luccioni, PhD, Research Scientist & Climate Lead at Hugging Face, spoke with OpenText recently about GenAI’s carbon footprints. Businesses have an opportunity to take strong action at the crossroads of AI and climate. Watch a sneak peek of our talk below and read my blog for more: https://lnkd.in/gv-M6498

Last month, Dr. Sasha Luccioni, PhD, Research Scientist and Climate Lead at Hugging Face, spoke to OpenTexters about ethical AI, fostering diversity in the field of machine learning, and the responsibility we all have to ensure technology is helping to change the world for the better. Thank you for sharing your insights with us, Dr. Luccioni!     Learn more about this engaging session in the latest blog post from OpenText CEO and CTO, Mark J. Barrenechea:

Sustainability is an important point to consider to make informed decisions!!

Yesterday I was able to attend the AI LA Earth Summit, a day of talks and chats about how data and machine learning applications can be applied to the Climate space. There were a few unintended themes: 📊You can only manage what you measure - About half the speakers addressed some kind of major gaps in our understanding. Anupa Asokan in particular highlighted just how little we know about our oceans, even just basic maps. Companies like Joshua Fisher's Hydrosat and the nonprofit Carbon Mapper are relying on satellites with better instruments to get more accurate pictures, for instance. 📍 Problems are big, but solutions are local - You eat a whale one bite at a time, and every climate tech company addresses a fraction of the whole. So the efforts of companies like Nextjet or Bill Beverley's Evolectric - CircularEV™ Solutions add up. Central planning probably won't solve our big problems. 🔦 You don't know what you don't know, so find out. - We're walking bundles of unconscious biases, so it's paramount to bring in the voices unlike your own. If you're aiming for a global reach, you need global input. And taking a trip isn't enough - bring in people with lived experience. Cool stuff, good thinking, and I love seeing LA flexing its climate muscles.

We are excited to present the fourth project of our 2023 Innovation Grants cohort: From Observing Power to Improving Power: Loss Localization in the Distribution Grid through Topology Lead Institution: University of Washington Team Members: June Lukuyu (University of Washington), Genevieve Flaspohler, Mohini Bariya, Joshua Adkins, Kwame Abrokwah, PMP, Noah Klugman (nLine) This project proposes a cost-effective solution that meets energy demands of low-and middle-income countries. This solution involves voltage sensing at customer connections and machine learning algorithms to detect and localize distribution grid losses, particularly in the low-voltage network where most issues occur. The Climate Change AI Innovation Grants Program 2023 is supported by Quadrature Climate Foundation, Google DeepMind, Global Methane Hub and the Canada Hub of Future Earth. Find out more at: https://lnkd.in/dwREKAtG

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓: We worked with Climate Change AI and Data Innovators to understand Grand Challenge initiatives in AI for climate and nature. Commissioned by the Bezos Earth Fund, this report analyzed 200+ programs to provide an in-depth guide on how to design and run Grand Challenges. It supported the development of BEF's $100-million #AIforClimateandNature Grand Challenge. CODE contributed to this report by conducting interviews with organizers, participants, judges, and other Grand Challenge stakeholders. Read the report: https://lnkd.in/dp-7ggMq  Learn more about BEF Grand Challenge: https://lnkd.in/dvHq5qAC #DataDeCODE #GrandChallenges #partnerships #AIandClimate

The current state of AI companies and their power consumption reminds me of the early days of search when Google had a team working exclusively on shortening response times. This work was for the user's benefit, but it also reduced power consumption by using less compute and directing queries to the closest data center. Hopefully we'll start to hear about climate heroes at AI companies that are working towards lightening the power consumption.

Important message for steering bottom-up processes in the regions & cities together with EU European Committee of the Regions - only together we can achieve the goals of tomorrow smartly for our climate, next generation and innovation with AI ! https://lnkd.in/eU3niPae