On Monday, Duncan Watson-Parris closed his welcoming remarks on the first meeting of the GAIA Initiative with an inviting flyover video of the Scripps campus.
On Monday, Duncan Watson-Parris closed his welcoming remarks on the first meeting of the GAIA Initiative with an inviting flyover video of the Scripps campus.
But even some among the artificial intelligence insiders in the audience gasped when Watson-Parris revealed that the looping image they were seeing was generated from a single photo with help from the Google Gemini AI model.
The kickoff event was intended to bring together research groups throughout UC San Diego that are already leveraging AI to accelerate their projects. Watson-Parris, an atmospheric physicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the goal was to "harness UC San Diego’s world-class Earth science and AI expertise to transform how we understand the planet.”
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Scripps Oceanography atmospheric physicist Duncan Watson-Parris describes the goals of the GAIA Initiative at a Monday conference at the Scripps Seaside Forum. (Photo Credit: Patrick Espinosa/UC San Diego)
