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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI skills propel 54 pct pay hikes, Microsoft seeks AI gaming experts, more

24Mar

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI skills propel 54 pct pay hikes, Microsoft seeks AI gaming experts, more

[ad_1] AI skills propel 54 percent salary increase in India; Microsoft seeks AI experts to transform gaming experience; NAAC Chairman advocates value based education amid AI disruption; Tim Cook advocates AI for climate action- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. AI skills propel 54 percent salary increase in Indian industriesA study reveals a 54 percent salary surge in industries due to AI skills. 95 percent of workers seek AI proficiency for career advancement. Indian employers offer higher pay, especially in IT and R&D sectors. Demographic interest grows, with 96 percent of women and 90 percent of baby boomers aiming for AI skills. Employers anticipate a 68 percent productivity increase with AI adoption, according to Manufacturing Today report. Also read: A...

Did other stars reshape Earth’s orbit? Check out these amazing stellar encounters

19Feb

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Did other stars reshape Earth’s orbit? Check out these amazing stellar encounters

[ad_1] Astronomers have uncovered a celestial revelation: stars passing near our solar system have wielded a profound influence on the orbit of Earth as well as those of its its planetary companions. This cosmic dance, detailed in a study titled "Passing Stars as an Important Driver of Paleoclimate and the Solar System's Orbital Evolution" published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, challenges our understanding of Earth's history and even encompasses shifts in climate.Stellar Perturbations and Climate VariabilityNathan A. Kaib, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, leading the research with contributions from Sean Raymond at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, highlights the significance of these stellar perturbations. "Perturbations- a minor deviation in the...

Startup AiDash raises $50 million for tech using AI, satellites to spot wildfire risk

24Jan

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Startup AiDash raises $50 million for tech using AI, satellites to spot wildfire risk

[ad_1] A California startup using artificial intelligence (AI) and satellites to spot fire and weather risks on power lines, AiDash, reported on Tuesday it had raised $50 million in new funding, reflecting Silicon Valley efforts to create products that help energy companies adapt to climate change.Power utilities are under pressure to cut risks of forest fires and storm-based outages after massive fires have been sparked by power lines and weather events brought down lines. At the same time, loads on the grid are likely to rise as electricity displaces fossil fuel in applications such as electric vehicles and home heat pumps. We are on WhatsApp Channels. Click to join. Hundreds of startups and small companies offer services and technology aimed at improving forest management, forest-fi...

WEF 2024: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella highlight the future impact of AI

17Jan

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WEF 2024: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella highlight the future impact of AI

[ad_1] The World Economic Forum (WEF 2024) at Davos has been going on with full force with various tech CEOs attending the event including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. On Tuesday Altman discussed about the future of AI and said it was an energy guzzler and that its future would be secure only if we get an energy breakthrough. Additionally, Microsofit's Satya Nadella also talked about the impact of AI in science. Know what the two tech giants said about Artificial intelligence (AI).Sam Altman and Satya Nadella at DavosThe WEF 2024 commenced on January 15, 2024, and on the second day the most known faces of the tech industry, Sam Altman and Satya Nadella highlighted what the future of AI would look like. While we talk about AI, currently it's in its very initial ...

At Davos, AI, climate change, conflict get top billing as leaders converge for elite meeting

16Jan

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At Davos, AI, climate change, conflict get top billing as leaders converge for elite meeting

[ad_1] The Earth is heating up, as is conflict in the Middle East. The world economy and Ukraine's defense against Russia are sputtering along. Artificial intelligence (AI) could upend all our lives. The to-do list of global priorities has grown for this year's edition of the World Economic Forum gabfest of business, political and other elites in the Alpine snows of Davos, Switzerland. It gets going in earnest Tuesday and runs through Friday.Over 60 heads of state and government, including Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be heading to town to hold both public appearances and closed-door talks. They'll be among more than 2,800 attendees, including academics, artists and international organization leaders. The gathering is mostly high-minde...

AI is a Double-Edged Sword for Climate Change

15Dec

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AI is a Double-Edged Sword for Climate Change

[ad_1] Tech companies have pitched artificial intelligence as a powerful tool to address climate change, but first they may need to stop AI from making the problem even worse. “It is absolutely true that AI is an energy-intensive technology,” said Sims Witherspoon, climate action lead at Google DeepMind. “Until we have a grid that is run completely on clean energy, those technologies will have a carbon footprint.” Witherspoon made the remarks during an interview for the latest episode of the Bloomberg Originals series AI IRL, available to stream now. Data centers around the world currently comprise about 1% to 1.5% of global electricity use, according to the International Energy Agency. But AI requires more energy than other forms of computing. As companies like Microsoft Corp., Open...

Clean energy miss: Bill Gates Says Chances of Meeting 2C Warming Goal Fading Fast

4Dec

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Clean energy miss: Bill Gates Says Chances of Meeting 2C Warming Goal Fading Fast

[ad_1] Bill Gates said the world probably won't meet the Paris Agreement's goal of keeping temperature rise below 2C. But he praised the COP28 summit for making progress on tackling climate change despite geopolitical tensions.“Climate progress is moving ahead even though we won't meet our highest aspirations,” he said in Bloomberg TV, citing the biggest-ever attendance at the annual United Nations summit and announcements on food and health initiatives. Keeping warming to 2C, the weaker goal agreed on at COP21 in Paris, “isn't that likely,” he said. 'Fortunately, if you stay below 3C, a lot of the ill effects that people have heard about don't happen.” A planet that warms by 3C from pre-industrial levels could regularly expose up to 50 million people to temperatures that are beyond hu...

How AI Can Help Clean Up the Biggest Climate Messes

30Nov

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How AI Can Help Clean Up the Biggest Climate Messes

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is now on the agenda as world leaders, climate diplomats and thousands of others descend on Dubai for the United Nations climate summit. Boosters of machine learning are pitching it as tool for unlocking enormous cuts to emissions.Some of the hardest to decarbonize sectors like cement and steel could particularly stand to benefit, according to a new report from the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum, an international climate forum organized by the government of Japan. The final version of the report will be presented at the COP28 climate talks that begin Thursday. The industrial sector is responsible for about a third of global carbon emissions, but machine learning models can potentially help lower its climate toll. By determining the optimal amount of raw ...

Bill Gates-backed startup to use old wood to remove carbon from the air

13Nov

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Bill Gates-backed startup to use old wood to remove carbon from the air

[ad_1] A startup backed and incubated by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures has engineered a hybrid technology that combines engineering with natural photosynthesis processes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground. “It's important to understand that carbon removal is not an excuse to keep emitting, or to slow down our transition to a clean energy economy — we need to keep innovating as fast as we can,” Gates wrote in his firm's “State of the Transition 2023” report, released today. “But it's become clear that carbon removal will be a necessary tool to have in our toolkit.” We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. Plants naturally pull CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in their tissue, but that CO2 is released back into the atmosphere when the pla...

Indian-Origin Professor Receives Dutch Prize For Climate Change Work

6Oct

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Indian-Origin Professor Receives Dutch Prize For Climate Change Work

[ad_1] Joyeeta Gupta received the prize on October 4 in a prize ceremony in The Hague.Amsterdam: Indian-origin professor Dr Joyeeta Gupta received the prestigious Dutch Prize for her work in the field of climate change.She is a professor of environment and development in the global south at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.She received the prize on October 4 in a prize ceremony in The Hague. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is the organiser of the award ceremony.The prestigious Spinoza Prize by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), which Dr Gupta has won, is also known as the 'Dutch Nobel'."Congratulations to Dr Joyeeta Gupta for receiving the prestigious Spinoza Prize by the Dutch Research Council ...