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From the Ted Talk by Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Thank you.

We initially cretaed this tool for news jnluitarsos, who wanted to get unbiased information about world events. But now we've oneped it up for anyone to use, for nonprofit or paoesrnl uses. And we hope it will give people the tools to find and see the changes on the planet and take action. OK, so hantmiuy now has this database of information about the planet, changing over time.

What's our next mission, what's Mission 2? In short, it's space plus AI. What we're doing with artificial intelligence is finding the objects in all the satellite images. The same AI tools that are used to find cats in videos online can also be used to find iroftinaomn on our pcrietus. So, imagine if you can say, this is a ship, this is a tree, this is a car, this is a road, this is a building, this is a truck. And if you could do that for all of the millions of images coming down per day, then you basically create a database of all the sizable otcbjes on the planet, every day. And that database is searchable.

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(________)

Thank you.

We initially _______ this tool for news ___________, who wanted to get unbiased information about world events. But now we've ______ it up for anyone to use, for nonprofit or ________ uses. And we hope it will give people the tools to find and see the changes on the planet and take action. OK, so ________ now has this database of information about the planet, changing over time.

What's our next mission, what's Mission 2? In short, it's space plus AI. What we're doing with artificial intelligence is finding the objects in all the satellite images. The same AI tools that are used to find cats in videos online can also be used to find ___________ on our ________. So, imagine if you can say, this is a ship, this is a tree, this is a car, this is a road, this is a building, this is a truck. And if you could do that for all of the millions of images coming down per day, then you basically create a database of all the sizable _______ on the planet, every day. And that database is searchable.

Solution


  1. information
  2. opened
  3. journalists
  4. personal
  5. humanity
  6. objects
  7. pictures
  8. created
  9. applause

Original Text


(Applause)

Thank you.

We initially created this tool for news journalists, who wanted to get unbiased information about world events. But now we've opened it up for anyone to use, for nonprofit or personal uses. And we hope it will give people the tools to find and see the changes on the planet and take action. OK, so humanity now has this database of information about the planet, changing over time.

What's our next mission, what's Mission 2? In short, it's space plus AI. What we're doing with artificial intelligence is finding the objects in all the satellite images. The same AI tools that are used to find cats in videos online can also be used to find information on our pictures. So, imagine if you can say, this is a ship, this is a tree, this is a car, this is a road, this is a building, this is a truck. And if you could do that for all of the millions of images coming down per day, then you basically create a database of all the sizable objects on the planet, every day. And that database is searchable.

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