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GAN artificial intelligence predicts climate change impacts around the globe: understand what this AI is and how to use it

A artificial intelligence is a set of technologies responsible for several changes, especially in quality of life, measurements and simulations. Weather applications, digital assistants, among many others are examples of the use of artificial intelligence — or “IA” — and recently a Canadian organization brought to the world an AI that could exemplify the impact of climate change in diverse locations familiar to s, using an artificial intelligence technology called GAN - “Generative Adversarial Networks” (“opponent generative networks”, in free translation). 2s525o

Present through the program "This Climate Does Not Exist” (“This climate does not exist”, in free translation), the GAN artificial intelligence produces images showing different cases of natural disasters in areas around the planet, selected using the system Google Maps, in order to exemplify how natural disasters can change the cities and environments we are used to visiting.

“This Climate Does Not Exist”: What is it? 2u5k34

O This Climate Does Not Exist is a website created by scientists at the artificial intelligence den in Quebec, Canada, which uses GANs to transform images, demonstrating an idea of ​​what a series of places – which can be chosen by anyone who accesses – would look like after natural catastrophes. . At the moment, only environments with floods, fires and smog (a layer of polluting gases formed by their accumulation in the part of the atmosphere where we live).

These are four images generated using the website. In order (left to right, top to bottom): Av. (https://boxmining.com/) Paulista (SP), Interlagos (RJ), Parque Ibirapuera (SP), Centro (CE).
Images: This Climate Does Not Exist

The name of the site comes, according to the creators, to emphasize the fact that climate change and global warming are, in fact, real, scientifically proven problems. In addition to being a website accessible to everyone where anyone can choose a location and test it to see how it would look under the effect of natural disasters, it is also an information tool about climate change and global warming. While some of the drastic climate change options are still a bit limited — AIs are improving little by little, after all — it's still a didactic, useful and interesting tool to use.

How does GAN artificial intelligence work? 1m2o6b

Artificial intelligence GAN is a structural class of machine learning algorithm (study of algorithms that automatically improve as used) developed in 2014, whose main objective employed is generate and transform images that little by little will improve their results and assimilate themselves better to objects, animals and even people in a way that looks more like what human beings see. The more artificial intelligence is exposed to content, the more it resembles real content.

Image of a woman who, despite looking real, was generated by an artificial intelligence
This may just look like a picture of an ordinary person, but this is actually an image generated by a GAN artificial intelligence.
Source: This Person Does Not Exist

GAN artificial intelligence was used on the website This Climate Does Not Exist to simulate the visual effects of floods, fire e smog using images provided by Google Maps through the Google Street View, which photographs and catalogs different locations worldwide. By applying GAN artificial intelligence technology to modify images and the vast amount of images from different Google locations, images are generated simulating natural disasters in locations chosen by s.

But how to use this tool and what does it have to do with the impact of climate change? 1v565u

Using the tool is simple: Just Google Maps, since the site uses the tool to demonstrate its results. After that, just click on the “Launch the visualization” and choose what type of natural disaster you prefer to see simulated from among the three options provided.

The website's artificial intelligence allows you to choose almost anywhere on the world map
Almost all major street locations are available.
Image: Author

The images shown by the site serve as a didactic (and even a little scary) way of demonstrating how places that are close to us could suffer from climate change caused by global warming. The whole intention is to show that, even if it is not visible in your neighborhood, this type of catastrophe can happen if precautions are not taken about reducing fossil fuel emissions, and it serves to remind you - even through texts in the website — that global warming is still a very big problem to be tackled.

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Pig iron: ThisClimateDoesNotExist, Mila e Accenture.

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