Peat soils in the UK have been hugely over-mined. But in 2021, the UK government put forward a Peat Action Plan to conserve and restore peat bogs. To this end, they started work on a map of peat si…
This actually would have happened even if they used a more traditional statistical model instead of machine learning, because their entire method seems to have been to collect a small amount of real data and then to use that data to infer the state for the rest of the land that they didn’t survey.
The difference is probably that when someone said the magic word: “AI,” all critical thinking and statistical rigour went out the window.
This actually would have happened even if they used a more traditional statistical model instead of machine learning, because their entire method seems to have been to collect a small amount of real data and then to use that data to infer the state for the rest of the land that they didn’t survey.
The difference is probably that when someone said the magic word: “AI,” all critical thinking and statistical rigour went out the window.