AndyEdmondson @AndyEdmondson@qoto.org

Since this has grown a lot since our first #introduction , FYI:

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Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.

So that’s how @carbon_re comes into the picture.

We develop #AI based tools that enable these plants to improve their operations, aiming to get to optimal control policies. Cement produced in an optimally controlled plant generates significantly less CO2 than an average human-controlled plant, and there are only ~3000 of them to fix up!

It is more #sustainable, safer for workers, and pushes the industry to improve across the board. Improvements are good, and we need more of them, faster!

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I’m thrilled to announce that @carbon_re has raised a $4.8m seed round! We’ve been sitting on this news for a while to sort out all the legal bits, but we can finally share it around 🚀

It will help us grow the team, serve more customers, and kickstart an AI research group! However this is likely the first time you have heard of us, so let me tell you what we do.

Carbon Re is a #climate #AI company on a mission to decarbonise “foundation industries”. Why is this important, you might ask?

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Since I experience a lot of confusion about the terms #AI and #ML (and I want to try out this feature), here's a tiny poll 📊:

If you talk about AI, do you usually mean ML (including DL) or does this also include other forms, such as planning, evolution, symbolic reasoning etc.?

Note that this is not about correct definitions but to get an understanding about what people see as AI nowadays.

Please share! #Mastodon