Artificial intelligence (AI) translation tools are contributing to the dissemination of data to combat the climate crisis.
The Guardian introduced an example on the sixth (local time) of a volunteer network called Climate Cardinals using Google Cloud’s AI translation tool.
In response to this, the organization was founded in 2019 by Stanford University student Sophia Kiani to combat the climate crisis. Along with greater than 9,000 youth volunteers all over the world and a gaggle called ‘Translators Without Borders’, they’re translating and distributing climate crisis-related information into greater than 100 languages, including Swahili, Urdu, and Hindi.
Kiani is claimed to have created this organization out of awareness of the issue that key scientific information related to the climate crisis just isn’t known to non-English speaking countries, in a situation where 80% of scientific papers all over the world are written in English.
After learning that temperatures within the Middle East were rising greater than twice as fast as the worldwide average, he began translating them into Persian for his unaware Iranian relatives. This has led his relatives to grow to be greener and has stated that they’ve taken motion in support of environmental advocates who’ve been persecuted by the Iranian government.
The Climate Cardinals have translated 500,000 words since 2020. Then, using Google Cloud’s AI translation tool, an extra 800,000 English words were translated into greater than 40 languages. “The interpretation speed is insane,” Kiani said. “We processed the quantity of translations we translated for 2 years after establishment in three months after using AI.”
“Through our partnership with Google, we will provide amazing translation capabilities to our collaborators,” he said, adding that he can be developing his own online translation portal based on ‘ChatGPT’.
“Those worst affected by climate change deserve access to the resources they need to know the disaster,” he stressed.
Reporter Jeong Byeong-il jbi@aitimes.com