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Whether it's glaciers or coral reefs, humanity needs to remember these wonders of nature,

especially at a time their under threat.

Media artist Rafique Anadol is working with AI to help us all jog our collective memories

in a bid to better preserve what could disappear.

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These are artificial corals created by a giant AI algorithm trained with more than 100 million

coral images.

Across the globe, sea water is becoming less habitable due to the climate change and

the coral reefs are dying rapidly.

One day, we might be only left with the simulations of corals in a virtual world.

With this project, Coral Dreams, our aim is to use AI and try to create artificial

realities while preserving, disappearing nature.

I'm a media artist and director.

My team and I have been using Gen.Y.I as a collaborator for seven years, although it feels

like 70.

We train mission-learning algorithms by harnessing large, focused, and public-developable datasets.

And visualizing what I call humanity's collective memories, such as nature, urban, and culture.

In this pandemic, my focus has been to compile the largest datasets and artificially preserve

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