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Ryan Morrison

Google used AI tools to predict a flood a week ahead — here’s how

Flooding.

Google used its artificial intelligence-powered weather forecasting tools to accurately predict floods up to a week in advance of them happening. 

In a new paper published in the scientific journal Nature, Google's researchers describe this as an early warning system that could be used throughout the world to mitigate the worst effects of what is one of the most common types of natural disasters.

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