TUK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is investing £117 million to set up a network of new centres across the country to train the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers.
TUK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is investing £117 million to set up a network of new centres across the country to train the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers.
One of the 12 new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) will be based at the University of Oxford and involve several partners from industry and the research community including the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). Over the next eight years, The Intelligent Earth Centre will train 100 PhD students to develop and apply AI to tackle environmental crises from climate change and biodiversity loss, to pollution and clean energy.
Such applications of AI could include next-generation climate models that run at a fraction of the computational cost and carbon footprint, automated tracking of biodiversity loss and unregulated pollution sources from space, or rapid alert systems for environmental disasters. AI may also generate better and earlier warning systems for any approaching extreme events.
Read More: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
