{"id":8394,"date":"2021-10-15T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1370087"},"modified":"2021-10-15T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:07:07","slug":"ai-project-brings-the-climate-crisis-to-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=8394","title":{"rendered":"AI project brings the climate crisis to your home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists have developed a novel way of making people care about climate change: flooding their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Not their real homes, of course; the destruction is merely a&nbsp; simulation \u2014 for now. But projecting catastrophic consequences onto familiar places could generate awareness through empathy.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShock is not the endgame here,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vict0rsch\/status\/1448350510474477571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">said study lead author<\/a> Victor Schmidt, a PhD candidate at the Mila Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, Canada. \u201cWe want to trigger and leverage emotions towards actions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1370089 js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30.png\" alt=\"ClimateGAN simulates extreme floods (right) on real scene images (left). \" width=\"1148\" height=\"364\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1148px) 100vw, 1148px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30.png 1148w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30-280x89.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30-270x86.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30-540x171.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30-796x252.png 796w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/ai-brings-the-climate-crisis-to-your-home-this-climate-does-not-exist#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2021%2F10%2F15%2Fai-brings-the-climate-crisis-to-your-home-this-climate-does-not-exist%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: ClimateGAN simulates extreme floods (right) on real scene images (left). Credit: Schmidt et al.\" data-title=\"Share ClimateGAN simulates extreme floods (right) on real scene images (left). Credit: Schmidt et al. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share ClimateGAN simulates extreme floods (right) on real scene images (left). Credit: Schmidt et al. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>ClimateGAN simulates extreme floods (right) on real scene images (left). Credit: Schmidt et al.<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1370089\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30.png\" alt=\"ClimateGAN simulates extreme floods (right) on real scene images (left). \" width=\"1148\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30.png 1148w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30-280x89.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30-270x86.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30-540x171.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-15-at-18.55.30-796x252.png 796w\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>The images of floods, wildfires, and smog are created via a deep learning model the researchers call <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2110.02871.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ClimateGAN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their architecture harnesses g<span>enerative adversarial networks (<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/what-is-gan-the-ai-technique-that-makes-computers-creative-syndication\">GANs<\/a>), which create new images by pitting two neural networks against each other: a generator and a discriminator. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The generator produces artificial content, such as pictures of flooded streets. The discriminator then compares the fake images to real photos. After numerous iterations, the generator learns how to fool the discriminator into believing the artificial images are real.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The visualizations are then projected onto photos of real places. You can see them for yourself at a website called <a href=\"https:\/\/thisclimatedoesnotexist.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">This Climate Does Not Exist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just enter an address listed on Google Street View and the system will slap your choice of flood, wildfire, or smog onto the location.<\/p>\n<p>The images do not exist, but the disasters they depict could make the abstract impacts of climate change more concrete.<\/p>\n<p><em>Greetings Humanoids! Did you know we have a newsletter all about AI? You can subscribe to it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/share.hsforms.com\/1kUPK28s-Ro67GKE8E65Zwg47gef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">right here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/ai-brings-the-climate-crisis-to-your-home-this-climate-does-not-exist\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a novel way of making people care about climate change: flooding their homes. Not their real homes, of course; the destruction is merely a&nbsp; simulation \u2014 for now. 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