Google's John Platt on AI for climate, disease forecasting, and science

In a Latent Space podcast episode, Google's John Platt discusses using AI to address climate change, including reducing airplane contrails that contribute about 1% of human-caused warming and detecting fires with FireSat satellites.

He also describes Google's Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), which uses Gemini and Monte Carlo Tree Search and achieved top marks in recent CDC benchmarks for forecasting COVID and flu cases a week ahead.