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Google reviews artificial intelligence applications in disease detection, disaster prediction, education, and work, with figures on its tools and research projects worldwide. The company emphasizes that the benefits are not automatic and that achieving them requires broad cooperation and addressing risks related to accuracy, safety, and social gaps.
Google uses artificial intelligence models to predict river floods up to seven days before they occur and urban flash floods up to 24 hours in advance. The Groundsource methodology is based on analyzing more than 5 million news reports to build a database containing 2.6 million historical flood events.