Artificial Intelligence

Episode 87: Apple branches out; it's time to reimagine carbon

August 4, 2017

In this week's episode, JP Morgan commits billions to "clean" financing, how to heal our overdrawn ecological budget — and corals get health insurance.

Episode 85: How AI may help sustainability; Keurig dives into recycling

July 21, 2017

By Joel Makower and Heather Clancy

In this week's episode, the rise and fall of NRG's green strategy, a chat with a biomimicry green guru and a visit to the ePrix.

What artificial intelligence means for sustainability

July 19, 2017

By Conor Riffle

It’s hard to open a newspaper these days without encountering an article on the arrival of artificial intelligence. Predictions about the potential of this new technology are everywhere.

Could Google become God?

July 10, 2017

By John Elkington

A look into our artificial intelligence-driven future.

REBA, a Google SVP and a physicist find the equation for change

June 22, 2017

By Barbara Grady

Google's Urs Holzle, the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance and John Goodenough have the imagination and capacity to make the impossible possible for renewable energy.

4 ways AI helps business protect the environment

June 15, 2017

By Julie Yamamoto

Connecting the dots for better insights and solutions is difficult because the relevant information is often siloed, but cognitive technology can help humans find patterns and interconnections.

Can this startup use blockchain to brew up more sustainable coffee?

April 12, 2017

By Heather Clancy

A new venture, bext360, has developed a system that verifies beans using smart image recognition. The technology may allow buyers to track provenance of crops more closely, while promising faster payments for local farmers.

Episode 61: 100RC debuts all 100 cities; Cambrian's water-as-a-service model

January 27, 2017

By Joel Makower and Lauren Hepler

On this week's podcast: Is China taking over the green bond market? How will artificial intelligence revolutionize supply chains?

Can artificial intelligence make supply chains sustainable?

January 23, 2017

By Heather Clancy

Next-gen software from the likes of EcoVadis, eRevalue, RepRisk and SAP could speed analysis.

Democratizing Deep Learning- Keynote Interview with Steve Jurvetson

Steve Jurvetson on Deep Learning

August 31, 2016

WithSteve Jurvetson

At VERGE 15, Steve Jurvetson talks about being an early VC investor in Tesla and how the pattern recognition and optimization capabilities of "deep learning" software will help us humans adapt to a world that is becoming increasingly unpredictable due to climate change.

"Instead of programming something to do something, you generate a computer program that is itself, like our brain, capable of learning anything," said Jurvetson.