On the opportunities and challenges of foundation models for geospatial artificial intelligence

G Mai, W Huang, J Sun, S Song, D Mishra… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

[PDF][PDF] Artificial general intelligence (AGI) for education

E Latif, G Mai, M Nyaaba, X Wu, N Liu, G Lu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - academia.edu
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) has gained global recognition as a future technology due
to the emergence of breakthrough large language models and chatbots such as GPT-4 and …

Towards a foundation model for geospatial artificial intelligence (vision paper)

G Mai, C Cundy, K Choi, Y Hu, N Lao… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

[PDF][PDF] Symbolic and subsymbolic GeoAI: Geospatial knowledge graphs and spatially explicit machine learning.

G Mai, Y Hu, S Gao, L Cai, B Martins, J Scholz… - Trans …, 2022 - geography.wisc.edu
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be roughly divided into two branches: Symbolic
Artificial Intelligence and Connectionist Artificial Intelligence (or so-called Subsymbolic AI) …

Geolm: Empowering language models for geospatially grounded language understanding

Z Li, W Zhou, YY Chiang, M Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.14478, 2023 - arxiv.org
Humans subconsciously engage in geospatial reasoning when reading articles. We
recognize place names and their spatial relations in text and mentally associate them with …

[HTML][HTML] How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?

X Hu, Y Sun, J Kersten, Z Zhou, F Klan, H Fan - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural language texts, such as tweets and news, contain a vast amount of geospatial
information, which can be extracted by first recognizing toponyms in texts (toponym …

AGI: Artificial general intelligence for education

E Latif, G Mai, M Nyaaba, X Wu, N Liu, G Lu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) has gained global recognition as a future technology due
to the emergence of breakthrough large language models and chatbots such as GPT-4 and …

Building Privacy-Preserving and Secure Geospatial Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models (Vision Paper)

J Rao, S Gao, G Mai, K Janowicz - Proceedings of the 31st ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In recent years we have seen substantial advances in foundation models for artificial
intelligence, including language, vision, and multimodal models. Recent studies have …

TopoBERT: a plug and play toponym recognition module harnessing fine-tuned BERT

B Zhou, L Zou, Y Hu, Y Qiang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Extracting precise geographical information from the textual content, referred to as toponym
recognition, is fundamental in geographical information retrieval and crucial in a plethora of …

Philosophical foundations of geoai: Exploring sustainability, diversity, and bias in geoai and spatial data science

K Janowicz - Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter presents some of the fundamental assumptions and principles that could form
the philosophical foundation of GeoAI and spatial data science. Instead of reviewing the well …