Google enhances its AI

At a Google AI Keynote event in NYC, Katherine Chou, senior director for Google Research, talks about Google's wildfire tracking technology. 

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Google is helping people combat the negative effects of climate change, including extreme weather patterns such as wildfires and floods, by developing tracking systems for these natural disasters. 

On Wednesday, Google added new features to its flood and wildfire tracking services that expand the scope of who can use it and what it does. 

Google has expanded its wildfire tracking systems to identify and track wildfires in real time and predict how they will evolve and spread. The tech giant has accomplished these changes by advancing its use of satellite imagery to train the AI models. 

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The tracking system will now also be present in other parts of the world, including parts of Australia and Mexico. Australia can benefit greatly from this type of technology as it is prone to wildfires and is still recovering from the record-breaking wildfires it experienced two years ago. 

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