this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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"AI" or machine learning does great things but making art and video is very resource intensive and does not further humanity. I went to super compute this year and went to a talk about using machine learning/AI for tsunami detection, learning about past ones to get alerts out sooner. Having access to a big data center that can train the models over weeks instead of months with the amount date they were ingesting has allowed them to quickly refine their model.
Thanks for the example.
So although I do agree this is a good thing, I wouldn’t call it revolutionary. If a tsunami is predicted, knowing a day or two earlier isn’t going to revolutionize response, it would help but it’s not in the same scale as being able to give live updates via the internet vs the speed or a newspaper.
https://www.preventionweb.net/news/pacific-tsunami-modern-early-warning-systems-prevent-catastrophic-death-tolls-past
From the article:
How do we know that the improvements isn’t from better communication instead of better prediction systems?
I might have missed it but the article doesn’t talk about how many lives saved can be attributed to AI, just that tsunami response has gotten better.