What is planetary intelligence and how could it move AI from the internet to the real world?

For the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has been largely trained on text scraped from the internet. As it becomes multimodal, it now includes photographs, videos and more – but only what we’ve uploaded. Using this data as inputs, these systems have learned how we write, speak, argue, joke and imagine.

We’ve all seen this incredible power, but these systems still remain curiously detached from the physical world. They do not see the planet as it changes. They do not anticipate what should happen next, nor register surprise when reality veers off course.

That is about to change. A new paradigm – “planetary intelligence” – could mark a genuine change in both AI and humanity’s relationship with the Earth. It involves coupling large-scale AI models with a global network of sensing and computing satellites to help machines develop beyond merely describing the world to become systems that can understand, anticipate and reason about it in real time.

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