Neil Sahota | Source | Lead Artificial Intelligence Advisor to the United Nations at United Nations
Neil Sahota
Neil's work experience spans multiple industries including legal services, healthcare, life sciences, retail, travel and transportation, energy and utilities, automotive, telecommunications, media/communication, and government. Moreover, he is one of the few people selected for IBM's Corporate Service Corps leadership program that pairs leaders with NGOs to perform community-driven economic development projects. For his assignment, Neil lived and worked in Ningbo, China where he partnered with Chinese corporate CEOs to create a leadership development program.
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We know that there's a combination of factors that can lead to a wildfire and rather just be reactive, we could potentially predict them by thinking about the dryness of the air, the air temperature, even the threat of thunderstorms. Using things like drone technology combined with AI we could actually survey a lot of these areas, and using the climate information that we have, check on the risk factors of various spots of where wildfires could actually occur. We know that this is possible. The real challenge is that it's a lot of work.
24 June 2021
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24 June 2021article
How AI Could Help Predict Destructive WildfiresAI is already being used in early testing to detect the first glimmers of deadly wildfires in California, which each year destroy billions of dollars in
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University of California, Irvine School of Law (https://www.law.uci.edu)
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