I don’t really have a personal opinion on this yet, but I was curious what other people think about this subject.

[image] Italopithecus: if used in managing nature. Human: How can we slow deforestation? AI: You can try gluing the trees back in place. Just a joke; not an actual conversation.

By far AI’s biggest impact on nature thus far is the enormous carbon footprint of all the extra computing power that goes into it. Most of this is not relatively efficient operations like iNat, but power hungry and overly broad applications. Every big company seems to think they need to jump on Chat…

in terms of AI telling us what to do, we already know what to do. Unless AI can somehow convince the global elite of things scientists, naturalists, and indigenous people can not, it won’t help in that regard. We solve climate change by not emitting more fossil fuels and restoring wetlands and fores…

[image] charlie: other ecosystems that sequester carbon We need more peat bogs!

It’s probably way less than crypto and NFTs though…

yeah i personally don’t find the impact of using AI in terms of carbon sequestration to be that compelling of an argument compared with all of the other things going on in the world. I’m not a major AI user by any means but using it to help identify a species or write a report or something seems a m…

Technically, the iNat CV is not AI. They are very different digital “things”. Fundamentally different. i know people use these terms interchangeably but they are not really interchangeable. You can read up on AI and definitions, etc, on the glorious internet.

i feel like most of what is called ‘AI’ isn’t AI at all.

Just a day ago a family friend sent me a picture of a potted plant wanting to know what it was so she could go buy it. It was an AI image she pulled off Facebook. I was very confused, couldn’t tell what was off about it – but I knew instantly something about the picture looked wrong/fake. It does m…

AI's impact on nature, what are the pros and cons?

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