Why it's hard to mitigate climate change, and how to do better
Jack Kelly
2019 Invited talk
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Workshop: Climate Change: How Can AI Help?
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Workshop: Climate Change: How Can AI Help?
Abstract
It's hard to have climate impact! Lots of projects look great from a distance but fail in practice. The energy system is enormously complex, and there are many non-technical bottlenecks to having impact. In this talk, I'll describe some of these challenges, so you can try to avoid them and hence reduce emissions more rapidly! Let's say you've built a great ML algorithm and written a paper. Now what? Your paper is completely invisible to the climate. How do you get your research used by the energy system? I don’t claim to have all the answers; but I’d like to discuss some of the challenges, and some ideas for how to get round them.
Speaker
Jack Kelly
Jack is an ML researcher who's terrified by climate change. PhD on energy disaggregation, then worked on wind power forecasting at DeepMind, and then left DeepMind to co-found Open Climate Fix, a non-profit entirely focused on using open science to mitigate climate change.
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