“We don’t use that ‘p word’ — ‘predict’ — at all,” she told me. “Earthquakes are chaotic. We don’t know when or where they’ll occur.”<\/p>
Neural Earthwork<\/h2>
That could finally be starting to change, according to a fascinating feature<\/a> in The<\/em> New York Times<\/em>.<\/p> By feeding seismic data into a neural network — a type of artificial intelligence that learns to recognize patterns by scrutinizing examples — researchers say they can now predict moments after a quake strikes how far its aftershocks will travel.<\/p> And eventually, some believe, they’ll be able to listen to signals from fault lines and predict when an earthquake will strike in the first place.<\/p> But like Baltay, some researchers aren’t convinced we’ll ever be able to predict earthquakes.University of Tokyo seismologist Robert Geller told the Times<\/em> that until an algorithm actually predicts an upcoming quake, he’ll remain skeptical.<\/p> “There are no shortcuts,” he said. “If you cannot predict the future, then your hypothesis is wrong.”<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> A.I. Is Helping Scientist Predict When and Where the Next Big Earthquake Will Be<\/a> [The New York Times<\/em>]<\/p> More on earthquake AI: A New AI Detected 17 Times More Earthquakes Than Traditional Methods<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p> Link: Quake Rate Earlier this year, I interviewed\u00a0U.S. Geological Survey geologist\u00a0Annemarie Baltay for a story about why it\u2019s incredibly difficult to predict earthquakes . \u201cWe don\u2019t use that \u2018p word\u2019 \u2014 \u2018predict\u2019 \u2014 at all,\u201d she told me Continue reading Future Vision<\/h2>
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