California firefighters use AI to battle wildfires

San Diego (AFP) Sept 13, 2023

When a wildfire erupted in the middle of a recent California night, it could have been a disaster. But thanks to a new monitoring system that uses artificial intelligence to scan for danger, firefighters were able to quell the blaze long before it got out of hand. "It was less than a quarter acre," Captain Kris Yeary of Cal Fire told AFP. "Had the AI not alerted us to it, it could ha