Artificial intelligence helps solve the most complex problems beneath our feet

Artificial intelligence helps solve the most complex problems beneath our feet By Hari Viswanathan For The New Mexican May 9, 2021 Save Few technological developments have captured the minds -- and fear -- of humanity like artificial intelligence. Whether it's robots rising up to subdue their makers like in the Westworld series, or the malevolent computer Hal 9000 from the classic movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, machines that can learn are depicted as threats to the world as we know it. Obviously, these futures are the work of imaginative screenwriters. In fact, artificial intelligence, or AI, is at work in the field of geological science right now helping to preserve the world and save lives. That topic is the focus of a virtual seminar series throughout the summer called "Machine Learning in Solid Earth Geoscience," a series that has been hosted in Santa Fe in pre-COVID-19 years.