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Google built a flash-flood prediction tool using Gemini and old news reports
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Google has developed a flash-flood prediction tool that leverages its Gemini AI model together with historical news reports. The system, called Groundsource, extracts roughly 2.6 million flood events from about 5 million past news articles, producing a geo-tagged time-series dataset for forecasting flash floods.
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How it was reported
- TechCrunch·Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods
- TechMeme·Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
- Engadget·Google built a flash-flood prediction tool using Gemini and old news reports
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