How we’re minimizing AI’s carbon footprint

Favorite The book that led to my visit to Google. When I first visited Google back in 2002, I was a computer science professor at UC Berkeley. My colleague John Hennessey and I were updating our textbook on computer architecture, and Larry Page — who rode a hot-rodded electric scooter

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Shared by Google AI Technology April 21, 2021

How fact checkers and Google.org are fighting misinformation

Favorite Misinformation can have dramatic consequences on people’s lives — from finding reliable information on everything from elections to vaccinations — and the pandemic has only exacerbated the problem as accurate information can save lives. To help fight the rise in minsformation, Full Fact, a nonprofit that provides tools and

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Shared by Google AI Technology March 31, 2021

Helping newsrooms experiment together with AI

Favorite In our JournalismAI report, journalists around the world told researchers they are eager to collaborate and explore the benefits of AI, especially as it applies to newsgathering, production and distribution.  To facilitate their collaboration, the Google News Initiative and Polis – the journalism think tank at the London School

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Shared by Google AI Technology March 23, 2021

What drives Nithya Sambasivan’s fight for fairness

Favorite When Nithya Sambasivan was finishing her undergraduate degree in engineering, she felt slightly unsatisfied. “I wanted to know, ‘how will the technology I build impact people?’” she says. Luckily, she would soon discover the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and pursue her graduate degrees.  She completed her master’s

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Shared by Google AI Technology March 22, 2021

Just desserts: Baking with AI-made recipes

Favorite It’s winter, it’s the holidays and it’s quarantine-times: It’s the perfect recipe for doing a ton of baking. In fact, U.S. search interest in “baking” spiked in both November and December 2020. But being in the AI field, we decided to dive a little deeper into the trend and  try

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Shared by Google AI Technology January 5, 2021

AI helps protect Australian wildlife in fire-affected areas

Favorite Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Darren Grover, Head of Healthy Land and Seascapes at the World Wide Fund For Nature Australia. Over the next six months, more than 600 sensor cameras will be deployed in bushfire-affected areas across Australia, monitoring and evaluating the surviving wildlife populations. This

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Shared by Google AI Technology December 15, 2020

Researchers can use qsim to explore quantum algorithms

Favorite A year ago, Google’s Quantum AI team achieved a beyond-classical computation by using a quantum computer to outperform the world’s fastest classical computer. With this, we entered a new era of quantum computing. We still have a long journey ahead of us to find practical applications, and we know

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Shared by Google AI Technology December 7, 2020