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In Action on Desertification: A Didactic Introduction

In Action on Desertification: A Didactic Introduction

Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781522584018|ISBN10: 1522584013|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522599593|EISBN13: 9781522584025
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8401-8.ch007
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John Thomas Riley and Luisa dall'Acqua. "In Action on Desertification: A Didactic Introduction." Narrative Thinking and Storytelling for Problem Solving in Science Education, IGI Global, 2019, pp.171-198. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8401-8.ch007

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J. Riley & L. dall'Acqua (2019). In Action on Desertification: A Didactic Introduction. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8401-8.ch007

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John Thomas Riley and Luisa dall'Acqua. "In Action on Desertification: A Didactic Introduction." In Narrative Thinking and Storytelling for Problem Solving in Science Education. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8401-8.ch007

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Abstract

Human activities, such as over grazing, have turned grasslands in many places into deserts. New methods in cattle management now allows many of these deserts to be returned to grass. Artificial intelligence is now driving a critical moment in the history of technology. Soon sets of Deep Learning chips will appear both in consumer products and in data centers. This quantum leap in technology will result in AIs that are powerful and cheap, but which use only a little power. This breakthrough will strongly affect the ways humans and machines interact. Our young people need to envision some the ways this transition could happen and to get ready. They need to understand what must be done to keep this expanding technology under human control and how to best use it for the good of society. This chapter's story, “The Matriarch,” looks at an interaction between people, animals, and artificial intelligences.

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