#2940: nazca, wildfires, wildfires, ai
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Implementing an AI system in the Nazca region, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has resulted in the discovery of 303 new figurative geoglyphs within just six months of fieldwork
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407652121 -
What aerial methods are being used to extinguish fires in Los Angeles, and what role does each method play?
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES/AIRCRAFTS/egvbjgkajvq/ -
The wildfires have caused significant devastation in neighborhoods around Los Angeles, marking an event that will change the city (paywalled)
https://www.ft.com/content/940000cd-f748-4383-bb24-2f9c32192cdc -
Since 2020, approximately 70% of the world's most computationally intensive AI models have been developed in the United States, which require significant space, infrastructure, and electricity consumption
https://ifp.org/future-of-ai-compute/#challenges-to-building-in-america
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