In Their Infinite Wisdom, IBM and Hugging Face Assume We Can’t Handle Our Own Climate Data

All hail the Dystopian Overlords!

IBM and Hugging Face, lovingly known as Big Brother’s corporate cousins, have decided that we’re all too stupid to understand satellite imaging data. Their solution? They’re releasing the watsonx.ai “geospatial foundation model”. This fancy-sounding pile of numbers and code is built from NASA’s satellite data, no less, and is being touted as the ‘gargantuan Mother Teresa’ of AI tools on Hugging Face.

Your Future Under AI Supervision

It’s not just a model; it’s a prophecy of a world where AI and corporation tag-team to dictate how we should respond to environmental issues. Apparently, ‘democratising access to AI for climate science’ translates to ‘we don’t trust you idiots with complex satellite data, so here’s our computerised interpretation tool’. Hold on to your hats, folks. We’re heading into an era where we don’t need to understand things for ourselves anymore, and we just accept input from unfeeling, profit-driven algorithms.

Get Ready for the New Climate Science Paradigm…or Don’t

IBM and Hugging Face have clearly outdone themselves here, creating an AI that’s designed to chew NASA data and spit out palatable nuggets of climate info for us uneducated masses. Are you psyched? Probably not. But you better start learning to love Big Tech’s interpretation of things, ’cause they’re pretty confident they do know better than you. In their world, everyone is a winner – as long as you’re not opposed to outsourcing thinking to machines.

Original article:https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/08/03/ibm-hugging-face-ai-foundation-model-climate-science/