How artificial intelligence could be used to fight wildfires

A tech integration company wants to use a new type of artificial intelligence to fight wildfires by using predictive analysis before the fires even start and AI logistics to help contain them. MIAMI - It is no secret wildfires are growing more frequent, more expensive to fight and rebuild from, more widespread, and more sustained than ever before. A Virginia-based technology integration company called Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, wants to use a new type of artificial intelligence to fight those fires by using predictive analysis before the fires even break out and then AI logistics to help contain them. "They need to understand where fires can occur, where they're occurring and where they're going," SAIC chief climate scientist Stephen Ambrose said. "And even after the fire -- what happens after that?"