TECH & AI
“ When you get AI right , you can not only push the state of the art , but you can do it on much less compute ”
DREW PURVES , SUSTAINABILITY & BIODIVERSITY CO – LEAD , GOOGLE DEEPMIND
“ One of the projects that we ’ re interested in is species distribution modelling ,” says Drew , discussing the second category .
“ That ’ s actually quite a bottleneck at the moment . If you pick a point on the map , we often don ’ t know which species are there . If we don ’ t know what ’ s there , we don ’ t know what to protect , we don ’ t know what to monitor .”
He highlights the importance of the third category – using that information .
“ There is a danger when it comes to actual implementation and decision – making because of information overload . At that point you ’ ve got predictions where millions of species are at fine grain every day – what can you do with this ? sustainabilitymag . com 93