Matters relating to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Tom is an ML Research Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) AI Lab, where he researches and develops ML systems for monitoring and adapting to climate change. His work currently focusses on the application and implementation of neural processes in environmental sciences. Tom has used uncertainty quantification, interpretability, and active learning methods to build […]
Iain Styles is Professor of Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast. He was previously at the University of Birmingham, where he was the Founding Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI, Turing University Lead, and PI and Director of the EPSRC-funded Baskerville Tier 2 High Performance Computing Facility. His principle research interest […]
The NERC ‘Digital Gathering 23’ has now drawn to a successful conclusion, organised through the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme. Held at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge on 10-11th July, the #DG23 International conference hosted a series of excellent oral presentation, spotlight talks, posters and masterclass workshops focussing on four of the core themes of […]
Dr Rossella Arcucciis a Lecturer in Data Science and Machine Learning at Imperial College London (ICL). She is an elected member of the World Meteorological Organization and the elected speaker of the AI Network of Excellence at ICL where she represents more than 270 academics working on AI. She has been with the Data Science […]
There’s been a lot in the press and media in recent weeks about ‘Generative AI’ and the increasingly well-known Open-AI chat bot agent ‘Chat GPT’ and its like. There are now a number of these agents out there to try, a recent addition to the pack is Google’s ‘Bard’ large language model chatbot. Educational establishments […]
Tom August is a computational ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. His research focuses on the use of technology to better our understanding of biodiversity, both through innovative data collection methods and engaging communications. Tom comes from a background in field and applied ecology, now focussing on applying AI methods to improve […]
Dr Peter Battaglia, Google DeepMind provided a presentation on the use of AI in medium range global weather forecasting. Peter Battaglia is a Research Scientist/Director at DeepMind. His work focuses on approaches for modelling and reasoning about complex systems, by combining richly structured knowledge with flexible learning algorithms. In this webinar, Peter presented his recent […]
Dr Sari Giering, NOC and Dr Robert Blackwell, CEFAS provided a joint overview of the role and opportunity of AI in oceanic plankton monitoring. Sari is a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre. Her research interests focus on how marine organisms influence the capacity of the ocean to store carbon. Her research combines shipboard measurements, […]
Professor David Topping, University of Manchester provides an overview of the role and opportunity of AI in environmental science. David’s research interests focus on building computational models of atmospheric aerosol particles for use in interpretation of measured properties and as sub models for incorporation into climate change models. The research area is highly multi-disciplinary, covering: […]
We have been trying out the rather amazing OpenAI tool ‘ChatGPT‘. This extraordinary online tool (https://chat.openai.com) provides the latest in AI. We asked it what it was and it answered ‘ChatGPT is a large language model that uses deep learning to generate human-like text. It is trained on a diverse set of internet text to […]