Read by: Elizabeth Wells
Language: English
Length: 4 minutes
Publisher: MIT Technology Review
Release date: 2016-04-08
From the street, through Beijing’s heavy smog, it can sometimes be hard to make out IBM’s Chinese headquarters: a towering office building with a distinctive undulating architectural flourish and a large company logo at the top. But just a short distance away, on the northeast outskirts of the capital, IBM computer scientists are using artificial intelligence to develop what they think will be a way to manage China’s notorious and chronic pollution problem more successfully.
"Can Machine Learning Help Lift China's Smog?" is from technologyreview.com, published on March 28, 2016