How artificial intelligence can help forecast and track climate-related disasters


Google is developing tools that use AI to help anticipate certain natural disasters. — Photography Courtesy of Google/AFP Relaxnews

As the world's population faces more and more natural disasters, largely due to climate change, Google has announced that artificial intelligence could soon help forecast and monitor floods, for example, or detect forest fires in real time.

At the end of a conference on artificial intelligence, Google gave an overview of the areas in which this technology could be put to practical use in the future. One of its most concrete fields of application concerns the anticipation and detection of natural disasters.

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