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Google Is Using AI To Predict Floods In India, Warn Users (theverge.com)
Google is partnering with the Central Water Commission of India to alert users in the country about impending floods. As The Verge notes, "the service is only available in the Patna region, with the first alert going out earlier this month." From the report: As Google's engineering VP Yossi Matias outlines in a blog post, these predictions are being made using a combination of machine learning, rainfall records, and flood simulations. "A variety of elements -- from historical events, to river level readings, to the terrain and elevation of a specific area -- feed into our models," writes Matias. "With this information, we've created river flood forecasting models that can more accurately predict not only when and where a flood might occur, but the severity of the event as well."
The way it is written, users warn us of Google using AI to predict floods. Why warn us? Are jobs at stake again?
Stop substituting 'and' with a comma, at least when it changes the meaning of the sentence, ffs!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Do you ever notice how much positive news flows into the media after some negative news?
Can't we label this as fake news?
In other news, DeepMind is now able to use meteorological and climatological data to ascertain where and how to release energy in order to cause flooding in India. /s
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Machine learning has, in it's current state been shown to be no better at time series forecasting than the best statistical methods:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194889
and fuck your shitty smelly parasites hindu-chimps.
Already tired of winning?
There's no brakes on the Trump train.
Even liberals have a seat.
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Google Is Using Data Analysis To Predict Floods In India, Warn Users
If they were really using A.I., it seems like the A.I. would be working on something else and then suddenly say, "Hey guys, it looks like there might be some flooding in India, you better warn people", without them telling it to look for flooding in the first place.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Guess they know we've called their bluff stateside. I doubt India will stand for Google's imposition, thankfully. Gotta love a company that decides for you that you require their assistance and then attempts to give you no alternative but to rely on them. Thankfully, there's no such thing as 'AI', this is just more marketing bullshit on their part to try to gain a toe hold. People of India: this will not be a reliable measure of anything but Google's hubris and lack of ethics. Their lack of inventiveness and plethora of incompetence, too.