Artificial intelligence helps Northwest scientists better understand wildfire emissions - Northwest Public Broadcasting

To better understand fire emissions under worst-case climate scenarios, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory first taught a machine to predict the past. That artificial intelligence is helping scientists better understand wildfire emissions in the Northwest. Then, they trained the model to learn patterns. When the AI model could predict what happened in previous fire seasons, the scientists knew they could trust it to predict the future, said lab fellow Ruby Leung. "Advances in machine learning now allow us to really focus on a large number of factors and also they're complex, non-linear relationship," Leung said.