How AI is saving homes and lives in California during wildfire season
From fire detection and predictive analysis to evaluation of vegetation moisture levels, AI has assumed center stage in California's fight against seasonal wildfires.
From fire detection and predictive analysis to evaluation of vegetation moisture levels, AI has assumed center stage in California's fight against seasonal wildfires.
The increasing scale of AI -- in terms of the size of neural networks, their energy use, the size of data sets, and the prevalence of the technology in society -- is raising the stakes for major ethical questions.
Some scholars of AI warn that the present technologies may never add up to "true" intelligence or "human" intelligence. But much of the world may not care about that.