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Benevolence of Assistive AI in Decreasing Natural Disaster Damage

Smart Data Collective

A number of hurricanes have wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast, and wildfires recently devastated the West Coast. Unfortunately, these severe weather events now occur more frequently. In seven of the last 10 years, there have been 10 or more weather-related disasters with costs exceeding $1 billion each.

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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

IBM Journey to AI blog

The collaboration is currently focused on building an AI-powered foundation model to make climate and weather applications faster and more accurate. The model could potentially be used to identify conditions that raise the risks of wildfires and predict hurricanes and droughts.

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Add Critical Context to Business Data with Geospatial Data and Location Intelligence

Precisely

Weather and traffic patterns span time and space as well, providing tremendously valuable insights for decision-makers who have the right data and tools. By combining real-time weather data with policyholder information, they’re even able to preemptively notify their customers of an impending hurricane, hailstorm, or similar event.

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Difficulties reading the cone of uncertainty

FlowingData

It seems that there is always surprise when a hurricane makes landfall in some areas, which some attribute to poor forecast communication with the cone on a map that shows possible paths. Maybe, when it comes to communicating hurricane forecasts, we should get rid of possible-paths maps altogether and focus on possible outcomes.

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How utilities can prepare for extreme weather with data and AI

IBM Journey to AI blog

Extreme weather events can be catastrophic to both people and the environment. But flash floods, hurricanes and winter storms also profoundly impact utilities. However, over the past 12 years, the US has encountered at least five events where unforeseen freezing weather caused outages and posed threats to grid reliability.

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Three lessons from weather forecasting that will improve disease forecasting and outbreak prediction

IBM Journey to AI blog

The popularity and wide use of weather forecasts has been largely attributable to the dramatic improvement in forecast accuracy. Such improvements have been quantified in recent research showing that modern 5-day weather forecasts are as accurate as 1-day forecasts in 1980.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Hacker News

Five centuries ago we thought we lived at the center of the universe. But other computational systems (like, say, the weather, which is sometimes said to “have a mind of its own”) are further away—as putative aliens might also be. Processes in nature—like, for example, the weather—can be thought of as corresponding to computations.

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