Microsoft Partners to Develop AI Disaster Prediction Tools
Big Partnership: Microsoft & US Dept. of Energy Source: DARPA AI Targets Include Extreme Weather, Natural Disaster Predictions Microsoft and the US Department of Energy (DOE) are spearheading a new partnership to create artificial intelligence (AI) tools capable of predicting natural disasters like the global extreme weather events and historic California wildfires that we are experiencing from Climate Change. The AI partnership includes the Pentagon's Joint AI Center, the Pacific Northwest National Lab along with Microsoft and the US Department of Energy. The AI partnership was just announced. Climate Change and Extreme Weather One of the most exciting potential applications of AI is to forecast and predict Climate Change and extreme weather conditions, like the historic flooding in China, the record breaking back to back hurricanes hitting Louisiana and the blistering heat much of the world endured in the summer of 2020. Global weather services have satellites, comput