[Ráfaga] #2940: nazca, wildfires, wildfires, ai

[Rafagas team]

#2940: nazca, wildfires, wildfires, ai

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 by Raf

* Implementing an AI system in the Nazca region, a UNESCO World
Heritage Site, has resulted in the discovery of 303 new figurative
geoglyphs within just six months of fieldwork

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407652121

* What aerial methods are being used to extinguish fires in Los
Angeles, and what role does each method play?

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES/AIRCRAFTS/egvbjgkajvq/

* The wildfires have caused significant devastation in neighborhoods
around Los Angeles, marking an event that will change the city
(paywalled)

https://www.ft.com/content/940000cd-f748-4383-bb24-2f9c32192cdc

* Since 2020, approximately 70% of the world's most computationally
intensive AI models have been developed in the United States, which
require significant space, infrastructure, and electricity consumption

https://ifp.org/future-of-ai-compute/#challenges-to-building-in-america

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Translated by Isaac, Jaume, Jorge, and Wladimir

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