There are also many positive applications of AI and medicine seems like a really powerful example of an area of its potential usefulness.
https://naviant.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-positive-impact/
@tgraf66, thank you for those two excellent articles and once again for hope for sustainable technology. We need a boost like that to keep us focused on a sustainable future.
@raincloud, your knowledge about climate change processes is so vast and helpful here. You are able to put into English concepts that are difficult to follow in scientific studies. So thank you, too.
As I read one of @tgraf66's articles about using crustacean's shells to make sustainable batteries, I too was thinking that it's too late to use shells because ocean acidification is destroying them and the oceans won't de-acidfy for a thousand years, if ever. But the article also mentioned that chitin, the ingredient in the shells needed to make sustainable batteries, is abundant in nature and can also be found in fungi and insects, but is usually thrown away as food waste from restaurants and a byproduct of the food industry. So couldn't they just get chitin from fungi and insects?
@raincloud, I was sitting in meeting last week where one of the projects would be a 7th use of AI that will be game changing, especially in other parts of the world, just about the moment the huge aquifer under North America falters.
@jackofhearts Intriguing post but I need more information to decode it.
Please explain:
You wrote "one of the projects would be a 7th use of AI that will be game changing, especially in other parts of the world, just about the moment the huge aquifer under North America falters."
1. What meeting was this you were in? What project?
2. what is the 7th use of AI? I can only determine that it refers to chat bots but that doesn't help me undnerstand what you mean.
3. So what do you mean when you write it will be a game changer, i.e., good or bad game change? And how so? And why compare it to the emptying of the Oligala Aquifer over the American Heartland. When that aquifer empties, which scientists have indicated could happen as early as 2028, what does that have to do with the 7th use of AI?
Thanks for your response.
Here's another interesting development on the energy front, this time something that would work well for small devices like phones and tablets.