#predictivetechnology — Public Fediverse posts

West Virginia University: WVU engineers develop AI system to speed satellite tracking of wildfires. “A new artificial intelligence system developed by West Virginia University engineers could help firefighters respond to wildfires sooner by enabling satellites to detect blazes and automatically adjust their positions for continued monitoring.”

Tokyo Weekender: Tokyo Metro Launches New Website To Help You Avoid Crowded Trains. “On Tuesday, Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd. launched Metro CrowdNavi, a website that lets passengers check congestion levels across all of its rail lines. The service provides average crowding data from the previous five days by station, time and train service, while a heatmap shows congestion levels across an entire […]

NiemanLab: Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat. “Keeping up with prediction markets is practically a full-time job, and for a few journalists they’ve become an opportunity to stake out a new beat at the intersection of politics, culture, finance, technology, sports, and even possibly true crime.”

Euromaidan: What is inside Ukraine’s new defense AI hub that will predict Russian moves?. “Ukraine, backed by the UK government, is launching the Defense AI Center ‘A1’. According to Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the new institution is intended to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence into military processes.”

USGS: New AI Tool Forecasts Drought 90 Days Ahead Nationwide. “The USGS River DroughtCast uses machine learning models trained on data from thousands of USGS streamgages, some with more than 100 years of continuous records, to forecast when rivers and streams will drop to abnormally low levels.”

BBC: Ground truth: When the Earth moves, AI can spot it. “In the US, landslides kill 25-50 people each year and cause billions of dollars in damage. Worldwide, they claim thousands of lives annually. Predicting when and where they will happen is incredibly difficult. But developments in AI are making it possible, helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world that are at high […]

Santa Barbara Independent: Chasing the Superbloom: New Map Helps Campers Time Wildflower Trips. “The California Superbloom Forecast pulls from roughly five years of research-grade observations submitted through the community science platform iNaturalist. By analyzing more than 150,000 entries, Hipcamp’s team created a map intended to guide visitors toward bloom-rich areas while also […]

Northeastern University: New data tool boosts preparedness for potentially deadly flooding. “A new tool spearheaded by Northeastern University interfaces with NOAA’s National Water Model to deliver historic and forecasted flood data to community members involved in flood and emergency preparedness.”

University of Michigan: Say what’s on your mind, and AI can tell what kind of person you are. “A new University of Michigan study found that widely available generative AI models (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, LLaMa) can predict personality, key behaviors and daily emotions as or even more accurately than those closest to you.”

University of Waterloo: Predicting disease outbreaks using social media. “Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new approach that could help public health officials predict where outbreaks might occur. By analyzing social media posts, the method identifies early signs of increasing vaccine skepticism — a warning signal that could emerge before any disease begins to spread.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/21/university-of-waterloo-predicting-disease-outbreaks-using-social-media/

Ars Technica: Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season. “Although Google DeepMind’s Weather Lab only started releasing cyclone track forecasts in June, the company’s AI forecasting service performed exceptionally well. By contrast, the Global Forecast System model, which is operated by the US National Weather Service, is based on traditional physics, and runs on […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/05/ars-technica-googles-new-hurricane-model-was-breathtakingly-good-this-season/

Northeastern University: Machine learning can help mental health patients get better outcomes, research shows. “Northeastern University assistant professor of applied psychology Joshua Curtiss led a study, recently published in the Clinical Psychology Review, in which researchers conducted a large meta-analysis of studies from other journals that used machine learning to predict treatment […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/19/northeastern-university-machine-learning-can-help-mental-health-patients-get-better-outcomes-research-shows/

NOAA Research: An experimental NOAA tool that predicts hourly wildfire hazards across the U.S.. “[Hourly Wildfire Potential Index] provides an assessment of wildfire potential updated every hour based on model-predicted weather conditions. The frequent updates allow HWP to forecast sudden increases or decreases in potential fire activity due to changing weather conditions, providing more […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/noaa-research-an-experimental-noaa-tool-that-predicts-hourly-wildfire-hazards-across-the-u-s/

BBC News: Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity. “Ten million people within 98 miles of the epicentre could have been sent Google’s highest level alert – giving up to 35 seconds of warning to find safety. Instead, only 469 ‘Take Action’ warnings were sent out for the first 7.8 magnitude quake.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/28/bbc-news-google-failed-to-warn-10-million-of-turkey-earthquake-severity/

WGCU: Extreme rainfall: Modernized database may be saved from budget cuts after public outcry and deadly Texas flooding. “A next-gen federal database designed to predict extreme rainfall that leads to dangerous flooding may be safe from federal budget cuts after all, despite being officially halted on July 10. A key scientist who was working on the NOAA-funded Atlas-15 project to modernize […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/24/extreme-rainfall-modernized-database-may-be-saved-from-budget-cuts-after-public-outcry-and-deadly-texas-flooding-wgcu/

Charles Darwin University: World-first study uses First Nations calendars for solar power forecasting. “CDU researchers developed the model using the Tiwi, Gulumoerrgin (Larrakia), Kunwinjku and Ngurrungurrudjba First Nations calendars, and a modern calendar known as Red Centre. Researchers used data from the Desert Knowledge Australia Solar Center in Alice Springs, and the results show the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/charles-darwin-university-world-first-study-uses-first-nations-calendars-for-solar-power-forecasting/

Harvard Business Review, and as always I promise I did not plan to put these articles together: Research: Executives Who Used Gen AI Made Worse Predictions . “We found that ChatGPT made executives significantly more optimistic in their forecasts while peer discussions tended to encourage caution. Additionally, we found that the executives armed with ChatGPT made worse predictions, based on […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/08/research-executives-who-used-gen-ai-made-worse-predictions-harvard-business-review/

Norwegian SciTech News: Identifying the technology we do not want. “When new technology fails, it’s not always because it does not work as intended. Sometimes, people simply don’t want to use it. One researcher believes this should be predictable.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/20/norwegian-scitech-news-identifying-the-technology-we-do-not-want/

Google Blog: Weather Lab is an interactive website for sharing Google’s AI weather models.. “Today Google DeepMind and Google Research are launching a public preview of Weather Lab, an interactive website for sharing our AIweather models, and debuting our newest experimental AI-based cyclone predictions. While still experimental, our goal is to continue to work on this technology to help […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/google-blog-weather-lab-is-an-interactive-website-for-sharing-googles-ai-weather-models/

The Register: Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics. “Scientists have developed a machine learning model that can outperform official agencies at predicting tropical cyclone tracks, and do it faster and cheaper than traditional physics-based systems.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/26/the-register-microsoft-backed-ai-out-forecasts-hurricane-experts-without-crunching-the-physics/

Android Police: Google deactivates Android’s earthquake alerts after false alarm in Brazil. “Android’s got a built-in feature that crowdsources device sensor data to provide early warning to users about earthquakes. Today, following an apparent malfunction of that system, Google’s disabled it for users in Brazil.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/16/android-police-google-deactivates-androids-earthquake-alerts-after-false-alarm-in-brazil/

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UC San Diego: Nanoengineers Develop a Predictive Database for Materials

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/nanoengineers-develop-a-predictive-database-for-materials