The most common questions people ask about geology on Google, which may help inform our communications. We can also look at TikTok and YouTube separately. Data can be exported as CSV.These are the high level ones in the sunburst diagram, but we can move down into sub-disciplines and sectors for more detail and nuance. For... Continue Reading →

Looking forward to presenting at this Generative AI, Machine Learning and Analytics for Subsurface Energy event in a few weeks time. Delighted to be invited to join some of the industry’s most insightful voices on the topic.“Join us to learn how generative AI, Large Language Models, and machine learning are giving geoscientists and engineers the... Continue Reading →

Earthgenome's Earthindex looks an interesting way for earth observation as a no-code solution for detecting activities using satellite imagery. Such as illegal mining in the Amazon and Africa, undocumented waste sites in Indonesia, Dams along the river Tigris and Eurphrates, wheat fields in Ukraine, Solar Energy construction in the Mekong Basin etc. Supporting indigeneous communities... Continue Reading →

Global search trends of disaster topics ‘Flooding’ (blue) and ‘Hurricanes’ (red) over the past 5 years. These data are from Google search trends.Relative popularity of natural disaster search queries appears to be increasing globally.Examining search data and trends may reveal some interesting phenomena. It reflects what is popular / of interest in parts of society... Continue Reading →

It can be relatively easy to create Large Language Model driven apps that exploit your own structured and unstructured data to produce rich results. This example is showing information on quarries in a certain area, combining data, text and geospatial information.One difference in this approach between using Google search and ChatGPT type approaches, is that... Continue Reading →

Spent a day talking artificial intelligence with the British Geological Survey in Nottingham this week. Fascinating to hear the projects already being undertaken and opportunities to apply new techniques.They hold over 15,000 cores from onshore boreholes, as well as core from just about every oil & gas well ever drilled offshore in the UK. An... Continue Reading →

Interesting article on AI ethics. Is it ethical for AI to be hosted to the international scientific community from a legal jurisdiction that will not allow questions or outputs that tarnish the image of that particular government or its policies? With the blessing and legitimacy of a prestigious international scientific body?Local laws must be respected.... Continue Reading →

Gave a talk today on Artificial Intelligence to the UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). A focus on Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models and Machine Vision in the Geological Sciences.Areas I covered for these techniques included: geology, palaeontology, outreach and education, geotourism, hydrogeology, hydrology, environmental contamination and pollution, geohazards -... Continue Reading →

Delighted to be appointed Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Ethics Task Group of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Commission on Geoethics. We will be working towards a white paper as a guiding document for the Union.