Selena Ross , The Guardian; How AI is revolutionising how firefighters tackle blazes and saving lives
"What’s more, all that data needs to be recrunched anew every day as the weather forecast changes.
Humans can do this. But AI seems to be able to do it better, digesting mammoth datasets to predict wildfires fairly accurately as much as a week or even 10 days before they start...
Technosylva’s work is part of a wave of new fire modelling around the world drawing on AI and grappling each project in a different way, with the same three factors: fuel, weather, ignition. Many are not yet operational, but their creators expect them to be in the next couple of years."
