Artificial intelligence is making its presence felt in the push for sustainability. In the latest of a regular series examining AI's development in the region, CNA examines three tech-driven projects with ambitions to help with climate disasters, biodiversity monitoring and plastic waste.
BANGKOK: Imagine a forecast that could provide precise temperature or wind conditions down to a city block level. Or how a storm might inundate an individual housing cluster, giving residents time to prepare for specific, local impacts.
It is an example of the fast-developing world of AI colliding with regional efforts to combat climate change and make gains in sustainability research fields. Typical existing weather forecasting worldwide has not changed for about 70 years. While improvements have slowly been made, the tools are fundamentally similar - essentially usinghas left many countries with substandard weather forecasting.
“When it comes to things like inundation and rain and flooding, there are significant differences. With much greater detail, and much greater accuracy that empowers you to take actions to protect yourself.” “Even though it is expensive, if it is so effective, the benefits you get will be worth it,” she said.
“And I hope that it will spread throughout the world and in doing so will counteract many of these very painful trends that have emerged in the last couple of decades.”ALL EARS ON HEARING BIODIVERSITY Instead of manually having to listen to thousands of hours of recordings and trying to determine species and behaviours, the students can upload their recordings to an AI-powered platform called Arbimon, which can provide analysis in a fraction of the time.
“For a scientist that has no access to technology, it would take on average 10 to 15 minutes to process one single recording,” said Mr Bourhan Yassin, the CEO of Rainforest Connection, which runs Arbimon. The non-profit organisation is dedicated to protecting threatened ecosystems. Despite the vast potential for eco-acoustics to be used, especially in rainforest-dense Malaysia and Indonesia, limitations remain around its use in Southeast Asia.
An aerial view of oil palm plantations in the Aceh Tenggara region in Indonesia. The Philippines has a bad reputation when it comes to plastic pollution. The country ranks as the world's leading polluter, accounting for 36 per cent of the global total plastic waste emissions into the ocean, according to a 2023 UK report.
For Dr Onda, developing countries have been forced to shoulder most of the responsibility and blame for plastic pollution, when it should be divided more fairly, including among plastic producers. They first had to adapt the AI’s capabilities to a local context - the plastic problem in the Philippines was very different to Japan’s, explained Mr Paul Samuel Ignacio, a mathematics professor at the University of the Philippines Baguio and Plasticount team member.
Average accuracy for the classification of plastic objects is up to about 85 per cent, Mr Ignacio said.
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