Top Stories of the Week

• 💧World Water Day (Mar 22), AI is making waves in water conservation! Startups like Seabex, Kilimo, SmartTerra, Pydro, and Shayp are using AI to help farmers save water and utilities fight leaks — proving that tech can quench the world’s thirst for sustainable solutions. 🌍🤖💦 Read more

• 🌦️World Meteorological Day (Mar 23), Google unveiled a new AI-powered weather prediction system that blends cutting-edge AI with traditional physics, a bold bet on the best of both worlds to forecast our future skies. Read more

• 🫁 World Tuberculosis Day (Mar 24), AI-powered screenings and treatments emerge as a game-changer in India's ambitious TB elimination efforts—showing promising results in early detection and faster interventions. Read more. 

• ♻️ International Day of Zero Waste (Mar 30), innovative AI solutions are now transforming waste management globally, optimizing recycling efforts, reducing waste, and pushing us closer to a sustainable, zero-waste future! Read more.

• China's ambitious push into AI has led to the construction of hundreds of data centers, yet reports indicate that up to 80% of these facilities remain underutilized, highlighting a significant mismatch between investment and actual demand. Read more. 

• 🎉 Microsoft AI Fest is starting from April 8^th! Join 50 days of record-breaking AI training, hackathons, live events, and community challenges tailored for professionals, students, and leaders alike. Register here

Research Papers, Code Repos and Passion Projects

1. 🚀 AI vs. Humans: The Ultimate Benchmark? The Answer Might Shock You! 🤯 We often compare AI models against other AI models, but shouldn't the real comparison be against humans? A groundbreaking new study proposes a game-changing metric: the 50%-task-completion time horizon—how long a task takes a human vs. how long it takes AI to reach a 50% success rate. And the results? Mind-blowing. The gap is closing, fast. AI isn’t just catching up; it’s accelerating past human capabilities. Read full paper here

2. 🚨AI Just Got a MAP Upgrade: Meet OmniGeo – The First Multimodal LLM That Understands the World Around You! 🌍🧠

   What if ChatGPT could read maps, understand satellite imagery, predict urban noise, and even forecast dementia deaths county-by-county? Introducing OmniGeo — the groundbreaking Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) purpose-built for Geospatial AI (GeoAI). From understanding street-level vibes (is your neighborhood beautiful or boring?) to decoding complex spatial data across text, satellite imagery, and urban infrastructure, this model outperforms GPT-4o on multiple geospatial benchmarks and it’s open-source! Read full paper here

3. 💥 Can Generative AI really solve global health crises? Stanford experts think it might — especially in places where doctors are scarce and misinformation is deadly. Discover how AI could become the world’s next frontline health worker. Read more.

4. Hugging Face Transformers: Use Transformers to fine-tune models on your data, build inference applications, and for generative AI use cases across multiple modalities.

5. Faiss (Facebook AI Similarity Search): Imagine you have millions of images, text documents, or user profiles, and you want to find items that are similar to a specific image or profile very fast.

🎓 Must read for college (going) students!

• Universities across the country are recognizing the shift and integrating AI into their curricula across disciplines. This transformation is happening not just in computer science departments but in business, healthcare, the humanities, and the arts. Read how to help college-bound students build AI Literacy Read more.

• OpenAI and the California State University system bring AI to 500,000 students and faculty. You can read what they’re up to and do similar things at your end to be ready for the future. Read more.

Solve for Earth.AI Resources

• AI for Good and Responsible AI Repository - Access it. 

• NotebookLM with all the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Reports - Access it.

• https://solveforearth.ai