AI read years of old news to learn how to forecast flash floods
Google researchers used AI to comb years of public reports and catalogue more than 2.6 million past floods. That record trained a model that can warn of urban flash floods up to 24 hours ahead, shown free on Google's Flood Hub.
Read the storyAI helped UK breast screening find about 10% more cancers
The UK's first full evaluation of AI in breast cancer screening found that adding it to the process raised cancer detection by 10.4%, while also cutting the workload on doctors.
Read the storyAn AI call filter has warned UK phone users about a billion scam calls
Virgin Media O2 says its AI system has now labelled more than a billion suspected scam and spam calls, about 70 million a month, and blocks known fraud numbers outright.
Read the storyAI models turn out to be bad at hiding what they're thinking
Some AI models work through problems step by step in writing before they answer. New research found they struggle to control what shows up in that written reasoning.
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