AI Study Group: September 2024

Our guest, Dr Batista-Navarro, specialist in Text Mining at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester introduced us to her team’s research on increasing the conscious choice of high-carbon food substitutes in everyday culinary decisions of the UK population, in order significantly to reduce the impact of CO2 on climate change. We learned that food is the third largest source of CO2 emissions and that these emissions can be reduced at an individual level immediately, without significant costs.

She also shared with us her knowledge about the complexity of planning the study, data collection, creating appropriate databases, the process of preparing this data. Thanks to her, we also delved into the NLP methodology, enriching our operational knowledge of these processes.

We concluded with an extra section on ChatGPT o1-preview, and some of the use cases attendees have been having, including a live demo.