NASA and IBM Partners to Build AI Foundation Models to Advance Climate Science
NASA and IBM Partners to Build AI
Foundation Models to Advance Climate Science
Why In News
IBM has partnered
with NASA to gain new findings on Earth’s climate through the power of AI
technology. The two organizations will use AI tech developed by IBM.
Key Points
IBM has partnered
with NASA to gain new findings on Earth’s climate through the power of AI
technology. The two organizations will use AI tech developed by IBM together
with the large amounts of Earth observation and geospatial data that NASA has
available to share. Earth observation is the gathering of information about
Earth’s physical, chemical, and biological systems, usually through the use of
satellite imaging.
IBM informed that the
goal of the partnership is to provide an easier way for researchers to analyze
and draw insights from these large data sets.
The company plans to
apply its foundation AI models – which are trained on broad sets of data – to
speed up the analysis of this data.
The company stated
that these types of AI systems have been used to advance natural language
processing (NLP) technology in recent years. An example of an AI model that
uses NLP is ChatGPT.
NASA senior
researcher Rahul Ramachandran informed that these foundation models can be
potentially used “for many downstream applications”.
The two organizations
plan to work together on several projects to extract new insights from Earth
observation data.
By analyzing the
satellite data, it is hoped this foundational model will identify changes in
natural disasters, crop yields, and wildlife habitats to help researchers
analyze the Earth’s environmental systems.