DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Solve the Climate Crisis

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s climate lead about techno-utopianism, ways AI can help fight climate change, and what’s currently standing in the way.

WIRED: How can AI help us tackle climate change? Sims Witherspoon: There are lots of ways we can slice the answer. AI can help us in mitigation. It can help us in adaptation. It can help us with addressing loss and damage. It can help us in biodiversity and ecology and much more. But I think one of the ways that makes it more tangible for most people is to talk about it through the lens of AI’s strengths.

We believe it’s really important to see and understand how much energy these models use and be open about that, and then we also have a number of efforts to reduce the compute needed for these models.

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