AI Powers New Frontier in Fighting Wildfires and Accelerating Battery Research
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Scientists are using AI to predict extreme weather events like wildfires in order to respond faster. A company called MyRadar is working on a constellation of satellites with AI on board to spot fires early.
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AI is being used to process satellite data on board cubesats instead of transmitting everything to Earth, solving a communications bottleneck.
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Neural networks are trained to recognize fires by "learning" from many labeled images of fires, smoke, and normal environments. This allows the AI to accurately identify emerging wildfires.
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At Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, AI sifts through scientific papers to discover connections and predict properties of hypothetical battery compounds, drastically accelerating materials research.
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Robotic labs then efficiently test the most promising AI-predicted compounds. This has cut battery materials development time from 20 years to days.