10 October 2019: Estimating earthquake risk, and difficulties for deep-learning
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🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week, a method for predicting follow-up earthquakes, and the issues with deep learning systems in AI.
In this episode:
00:47 Which is the big quake?
A new technique could allow seismologists to better predict if a larger earthquake will follow an initial tremor.
Research Article: Real-time discrimination of earthquake foreshocks and aftershocks; News and Views: Predicting if the worst earthquake has passed
07:46 Research Highlights
Vampire bats transmitting rabies in Costa Rica, and why are some octopuses warty?
Research Article: Streicker et al.; Research Article: Voight et al.
10:03 Problems for pattern-recognition
Deep-learning allows AIs to better understand the world, but the technique is not without its issues.
News Feature: Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool
16:31 News Chat
We roundup the 2019 Nobel Prizes for science.
News: Biologists who decoded how cells sense oxygen win medicine Nobel; News: Physics Nobel goes to exoplanet and cosmology pioneers; News: Chemistry Nobel honours world-changing batteries
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your destination. |
| 0:12.1 | Not a care in the world as you simply lean back. |
| 0:17.1 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel. |
| 0:22.6 | And on our trains, it does. |
| 0:25.2 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:32.2 | In an experiment, I don't know yet |
| 0:38.4 | Why is it like so far? |
| 0:40.4 | Like it sounds so simple |
| 0:41.6 | They had no idea |
| 0:43.1 | But now the data's people |
| 0:44.4 | I find this not only refreshing |
| 0:47.1 | But at some level astounding |
| 0:49.2 | Nature |
| 0:52.6 | Welcome to the sixth hundredth episode of the nature podcast. |
| 1:00.1 | This week we're talking about improving post-earthquake predictions |
| 1:03.7 | and the issues with deep learning in artificial intelligence. |
| 1:08.1 | I'm Nick Howell and I'm Benjamin Thompson. |
| 1:26.1 | Music intelligence. I'm Nick Howell and I'm Benjamin Thompson. On the 24th of August 2016, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck central Italy. |
| 1:38.3 | The earthquake caused the death of 297 people, but this event wasn't the end of the quakes |
| 1:47.0 | that struck the region. |
| 1:51.2 | Two months later, the area was hit by an even bigger magnitude 6.6 earthquake. Many buildings and important monuments were destroyed by this larger earthquake, |
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