Google’s latest The AI model will search for the earth and ideally, it can help it. Anyway, that’s the plan. The mission is to find out what we do to the earth once and for all. Crucially, once the model does this, it will obviously also explain that we may be able to best place things in a position to help our world.
The Alphaearth Foundation is a branch of Google’s DeepMind AI model, aiming to leverage machine learning and Google has absorbed all the GOBs and GOBs of our planet over the past two decades to understand how changes in specific fields have changed over time.
The model uses a system called “embedding” that collects data from satellites every day, analyzes and compresses it to save storage space. The result is a model of different filters covered on a color-coded map to indicate material properties, vegetation type, groundwater sources, and human buildings such as buildings and farms. Google said the system will act as a “virtual satellite” that allows users to request details about any given location on Earth on demand.
Google said the goal is to enable users of the service to better understand how specific ecosystems on the planet work, including air quality, sunshine, groundwater and even how human architectural projects change and change across landscapes. Ultimately, the company hopes that the model will help answer questions from paid governments and companies, such as which ecosystems may have more access to sunlight or groundwater, which can help determine the best location to grow a certain crop. Additionally, it may help identify areas, reduce solar panels with maximum returns, or build structures in more climate-resilient locations.
Google’s new model has already painted a complex surface (a area that is difficult to capture due to irregular satellite imaging) in Antarctica. It is said to also outline changes in Canadian agricultural land use, which are invisible to the naked eye.
