Google AI predicts floods four days early in South America and Africa

Google’s synthetic intelligence flood prediction system can now forecast floods 4 days prematurely in data-poor areas, like South America and Africa, in addition to data-rich areas like Europe and the US.

A lot of the world’s waterways don’t have correct measurements for water stream, which makes predicting floods arduous. Decrease-income international locations are disproportionately affected by a scarcity of information, whereas higher-income international locations usually tend to have well-measured rivers and lakes and so extra correct flood predictions.

In 2018, Google launched an …