The Bubble Effect: Focusing only on your geoscience disciplinary session at a conference may miss 44% of the 10 most relevant contributions. This may therefore pose a risk of missing geoscience contributions addressing similar problems from a different perspective presented outside their own sessions.Interesting paper from Sodoge et al (2024) using Natural Language Processing (NLP)... Continue Reading →
World’s First Peer-Reviewed Paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics in the Geological Sciences with a focus on Language Models.
Delighted my paper on AI Ethics in the Geological Sciences has been published today in the peer reviewed open access Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences!AbstractArtificial Intelligence (AI) offers many opportunities for the geosciences to improve productivity, reduce uncertainty in models and stimulate discovery of new knowledge. There are also risks to geoscience, from the... Continue Reading →
NASA’s Geospatial Artificial Intelligence foundation model (V2)
Expanded AI Model with Global Data Enhances Earth Science Applications: NASA have released V2 of the open-source Prithvi Geospatial Artificial Intelligence foundation model with global data to support a broader range of geographical applications. These include tracking changes in land use, monitoring disasters, and predicting crop yields worldwide. Previous use cases of V1 included post-disaster flood... Continue Reading →
Digital Inclusion and Literacy: Digital Champions Age UK
As the year enters its final month, I'd like to share some things I've learnt as a ‘Digital Champion’ volunteer at my local Age UK, Age UK Oxfordshire, this past year. Smartphones, Tablets and Computers, and their constant updates, can be overwhelming even to those of us that profess to know more than most about technology.What I... Continue Reading →
There is a public conversation occuring that will likely have profound implications for the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Geological Sciences for years to come.
There is a public conversation occuring that will likely have profound implications for the ethics of geoscience Artificial Intelligence (AI) for years to come. You can read about it in the Geoscientist Winter Edition published today, also online. https://geoscientist.online/sections/viewpoint/advancing-transparent-and-ethical-ai/
Google DeepMind report: A new golden age of discovery: Seizing the AI for Science Opportunity.
Google DeepMind report: A new golden age of discovery: Seizing the AI for Science opportunity. One in three postdocs now use large language models to help carry out literature reviews, coding, and editing.I recommend to anyone who wishes to understand more on how AI is and could impact science, or is developing AI policy, to... Continue Reading →
AI Based technology for analysis of mineral deposits.
AI-based technologies are transforming the analysis of mineral deposits as drilling gets deeper. Mining exploration is accelerating in Latin America due to the demand for minerals supporting the energy transition such as copper and lithium.Interesting article from Jane Bentham in Global Mining Review yesterday. One of the geoscientists she interviewed stated,“The incorporation of artificial intelligence,... Continue Reading →
Presentation of uncertainty in geoscience Large Language Models (LLM)
Presentation of uncertainty in geoscience Large Language Models (LLM) is likely to be an important part of ethical design. A factual dataset was open-sourced by Wei et al (2024) “SimpleQA” a few weeks ago containing over 4,300 generic factual questions and answers.One use of these data was to test the stated confidence of an LLM... Continue Reading →