Google Is Using 5 Million News Articles and Gemini to Predict Flash Floods

Key Highlights – Flash floods kill more than 5,000 people every year, and unlike most weather events, they are notoriously resistant to prediction. They are too short-lived and too localised to be tracked the way river flows or temperatures are — which means the deep learning models now capable of forecasting most weather patterns have had very little useful data to work with when it comes to flash floods specifically. Google’s approach to fixing that is, to put it simply, unconventional. Rather than waiting for sensor infrastructure that many developing countries cannot afford to build, the company turned to the […]