Will Marshall
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244 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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And that is going to open up a huge new set of domains of applications.
Good question.
I've been impatient with this for a while.
In fact, I did a TED Talk in 2018 called Queryable Earth, where I was just talking about how we should, with computer vision and all this Earth data, be able to index everything on the Earth and make it searchable.
But it was harder than I thought because...
Each different thing you'd want to monitor, trees, ships, planes, you'd have to build a bespoke model.
It was a lot of training.
And then it only worked in this area and didn't work in that area and all these things.
LLMs have enabled them.
It's more generic.
And in fact, excitingly, this is not just hypothetical anymore.
We're just about to launch a public beta app.
which should be out by the time this podcast comes out, that enables anyone to go in, look at our images and chat with all those images.
So you can search the whole earth for an object by text or by finding one and say, search for more, look like this, write me a report of all the agriculture in this region or land use change over time over here or shipping activity over there.
And it can have a pretty sophisticated analysis of a whole set of imagery
I really hope that will unlock a lot of the latent value in all this Earth imagery data sets.
We want to align AI with human interests and the rest of life on Earth.
And AI alignment is a big challenge that we don't know how to solve yet.
But I think a couple of things.
Firstly, AI is going to be hard for it to learn well without AI.
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