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MACHINE LEARNING

Training machines in Earthly ways

Geoscientists are training computers to learn from a wide range of geologic data and, in the process, the machines are teaching geoscientists about the workings of Earth.

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Fig. 1: Machines trained in the geosciences.

Image courtesy of J. Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Marone, C. Training machines in Earthly ways. Nature Geosci 11, 301–302 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0117-5

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