Fighting fire with AI - Asia News Center

Nothing is more associated with death and destruction than fire. It can produce a primal fear in all of us. So, when a university professor in Seoul, South Korea, challenged his class to use data to find solutions for complicated real-world problems, one student suggested analyzing information held by the city's Fire Department. The idea was to predict the probability of fires so that authorities could take action to make the city safer for its more than 9 million residents. Hongik University's Professor Jae Seung Lee and his students used artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms to develop a new model that can now do just that.