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Artificial intelligence for sustainable wine industry: AI-driven management in viticulture, wine production and enotourism

Sidorkiewicz, Marta, Królikowska, Karolina, Dyczek, Berenika, Pijet-Migon, Edyta, Dubel, Anna

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

ABSTRACT Purpose: This study examines the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing sustainability and efficiency w ithin the wine industry. It focuses on AI - driven intelligent management in viticulture, wine production, and enotourism. Need for the Study: As the wine industry faces environmental and economic challenges, AI offers innovative solutions to optimize resource use, reduce environmental impact, and improve customer engagement. Understanding AI's potential in sustainable winemaking is crucial for fostering responsible and efficient industry practices. Methodology: The research is based on a questionnaire survey conducted among Polish winemakers, combined with a comprehensive analysis of AI methods applicable to viticulture, production, and tourism. Key AI technologies, including predictive analytics, machine learning, and computer vision, are explored . Findings: AI enhances vineyard monitoring, optimizes irrigation, and streamlines production processes, contributing to sustainable resource manageme nt. In enotourism, AI - powered chatbots, recommendation systems, and virtual tastings personalize consumer experiences. The study underscores AI's impact on economic, environmental, and social sustainability, supporting local wine enterprises and cultural h eritage. Practical Implications: AI in winemaking and enotourism can lead to more efficient, sustainable operations that benefit producers and consumers. AI - driven solutions promote responsible tourism, enhance wine tourism experiences, and ensure the indu stry's long - term viability . Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development, AI - Driven Management, Viticulture, Wine Production, Enotourism, Wine Enterprises, Local Communities JEL codes: A13, A14, C55, D81, L66, L83, M31, O33, Q01, Q13, Q16, Z32 1. INTRODUCTION Sustainability in the wine industry encompasses environmental stewardship, economic viability, and social responsibility. Sustainable viticulture aims to minimize environmental impacts while maintaining product quality.


Twin Transition or Competing Interests? Validation of the Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability Perceptions Inventory (AISPI)

Bush, Annika

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

As artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability initiatives increasingly intersect, understanding public perceptions of their relationship becomes crucial for successful implementation. However, no validated instrument exists to measure these specific perceptions. This paper presents the development and validation of the Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability Perceptions Inventory (AISPI), a novel 13-item instrument measuring how individuals view the relationship between AI advancement and environmental sustainability. Through factor analysis (N=105), we identified two distinct dimensions: Twin Transition and Competing Interests. The instrument demonstrated strong reliability (alpha=.89) and construct validity through correlations with established measures of AI and sustainability attitudes. Our findings suggest that individuals can simultaneously recognize both synergies and tensions in the AI-sustainability relationship, offering important implications for researchers and practitioners working at this critical intersection. This work provides a foundational tool for future research on public perceptions of AI's role in sustainable development.


Surveying Attitudinal Alignment Between Large Language Models Vs. Humans Towards 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Wu, Qingyang, Xu, Ying, Xiao, Tingsong, Xiao, Yunze, Li, Yitong, Wang, Tianyang, Zhang, Yichi, Zhong, Shanghai, Zhang, Yuwei, Lu, Wei, Yang, Yifan

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as potent tools for advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the attitudinal disparities between LLMs and humans towards these goals can pose significant challenges. This study conducts a comprehensive review and analysis of the existing literature on the attitudes of LLMs towards the 17 SDGs, emphasizing the comparison between their attitudes and support for each goal and those of humans. We examine the potential disparities, primarily focusing on aspects such as understanding and emotions, cultural and regional differences, task objective variations, and factors considered in the decision-making process. These disparities arise from the underrepresentation and imbalance in LLM training data, historical biases, quality issues, lack of contextual understanding, and skewed ethical values reflected. The study also investigates the risks and harms that may arise from neglecting the attitudes of LLMs towards the SDGs, including the exacerbation of social inequalities, racial discrimination, environmental destruction, and resource wastage. To address these challenges, we propose strategies and recommendations to guide and regulate the application of LLMs, ensuring their alignment with the principles and goals of the SDGs, and therefore creating a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future.


MAP's not dead yet: Uncovering true language model modes by conditioning away degeneracy

Yoshida, Davis, Goyal, Kartik, Gimpel, Kevin

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

It has been widely observed that exact or approximate MAP (mode-seeking) decoding from natural language generation (NLG) models consistently leads to degenerate outputs (Stahlberg and Byrne, 2019, Holtzman et al., 2019). This has generally been attributed to either a fundamental inadequacy of modes in models or weaknesses in language modeling. Contrastingly in this work, we emphasize that degenerate modes can even occur in the absence of any model error, due to contamination of the training data. Specifically, we show that mixing even a tiny amount of low-entropy noise with a population text distribution can cause the data distribution's mode to become degenerate, implying that any models trained on it will be as well. As the unconditional mode of NLG models will often be degenerate, we therefore propose to apply MAP decoding to the model's distribution conditional on avoiding specific degeneracies. Using exact-search, we empirically verify that the length-conditional modes of machine translation models and language models are indeed more fluent and topical than their unconditional modes. For the first time, we also share many examples of exact modal sequences from these models, and from several variants of the LLaMA-7B model. Notably, the modes of the LLaMA models are still degenerate, showing that improvements in modeling have not fixed this issue. Because of the cost of exact mode finding algorithms, we develop an approximate mode finding approach, ACBS, which finds sequences that are both high-likelihood and high-quality. We apply this approach to LLaMA-7B, a model which was not trained for instruction following, and find that we are able to elicit reasonable outputs without any finetuning.


The Use of Synthetic Data to Train AI Models: Opportunities and Risks for Sustainable Development

Marwala, Tshilidzi, Fournier-Tombs, Eleonore, Stinckwich, Serge

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In the current data driven era, synthetic data, artificially generated data that resembles the characteristics of real world data without containing actual personal information, is gaining prominence. This is due to its potential to safeguard privacy, increase the availability of data for research, and reduce bias in machine learning models. This paper investigates the policies governing the creation, utilization, and dissemination of synthetic data. Synthetic data can be a powerful instrument for protecting the privacy of individuals, but it also presents challenges, such as ensuring its quality and authenticity. A well crafted synthetic data policy must strike a balance between privacy concerns and the utility of data, ensuring that it can be utilized effectively without compromising ethical or legal standards. Organizations and institutions must develop standardized guidelines and best practices in order to capitalize on the benefits of synthetic data while addressing its inherent challenges.


Towards Sustainable Development: A Novel Integrated Machine Learning Model for Holistic Environmental Health Monitoring

Mazumder, Anirudh, Engala, Sarthak, Nallaparaju, Aditya

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Urbanization enables economic growth but also harms the environment through degradation. Traditional methods of detecting environmental issues have proven inefficient. Machine learning has emerged as a promising tool for tracking environmental deterioration by identifying key predictive features. Recent research focused on developing a predictive model using pollutant levels and particulate matter as indicators of environmental state in order to outline challenges. Machine learning was employed to identify patterns linking areas with worse conditions. This research aims to assist governments in identifying intervention points, improving planning and conservation efforts, and ultimately contributing to sustainable development.


An Artificial Intelligence-based Framework to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the Context of Bangladesh

Hasan, Md. Tarek, Shamael, Mohammad Nazmush, Akter, Arifa, Islam, Rokibul, Mukta, Md. Saddam Hossain, Islam, Salekul

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Sustainable development is a framework for achieving human development goals. It provides natural systems' ability to deliver natural resources and ecosystem services. Sustainable development is crucial for the economy and society. Artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted increasing attention in recent years, with the potential to have a positive influence across many domains. AI is a commonly employed component in the quest for long-term sustainability. In this study, we explore the impact of AI on three pillars of sustainable development: society, environment, and economy, as well as numerous case studies from which we may deduce the impact of AI in a variety of areas, i.e., agriculture, classifying waste, smart water management, and Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. Furthermore, we present AI-based strategies for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are effective for developing countries like Bangladesh. The framework that we propose may reduce the negative impact of AI and promote the proactiveness of this technology.


Artificial Intelligence and sustainable development

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the ally that sustainable development needs to design, execute, advise and to plan the future of our planet and its sustainability more effectively. Technology like AI will help us build more efficiently, use resources sustainably and reduce and manage the waste we generate more effectively, among many other matters. Combining AI with sustainable development will help all industries to design a better planet, addressing current needs without compromising future generations due to climate change or other major challenges. In the following video, we will show you some of the ways in which Artificial Intelligence is already currently being used to create a sustainable world. According to a study published in Nature, AI could help achieve 79 % of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As we saw in the video, this technology could become a key tool for facilitating a circular economy and building smart cities that use their resources efficiently.



All Hands on Deck: AI and the Economics of Sustainable Development

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The focus of the United Nations on Sustainable Development is unquestionable. It seeks to permeate the concept into every aspect of its projects and programmes all over the world. One of the most popular, yet simplest, definitions of Sustainable Development is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." This means thinking not just of ourselves and our consumption, but of the generations to come as well. Sustainable development also means equitable development.

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