Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. From smartphones and laptops to customer service and support to brushing your teeth, AI is being weaved into almost everything you do in your life, whether you like it or not.
It is enough to give you AI fatigue. But every so often, a useful case pops up that makes us stop and think that it might all be worth it in the end.
Take the weather, for example. Predicting when it will rain in Ireland might be a bit easier than in other geographies – “most of the time” is the usual answer – but your smartphone can now reliably tell you that the rain is predicted to start shortly after 1pm so you can get the washing in before it lashes.
In recent years, that expertise has been expanded. It comes at a time when extreme weather events are occurring more frequently throughout the world.
Tech giant Google has been working on a better way to map the natural disasters we experience, and by extension, come up with a way to predict them and highlight the communities that could potentially be affected.
Helping drive this effort is Luke Barrington, the Dublin-based director of Google Earth AI.
The problem? Mongolia. Particularly the area of the country where Khan’s tomb is suspected to lie
Barrington has worked with Google since 2016, when he joined the company’s innovation laboratory X. The unit is tasked with “moonshot” technology, trying to come up with radical solutions to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems. From there he spent time at Wing, the drone arm of the group, and launched the commercial test of food delivery in Australia.
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