Could AI help predict catastrophic floods? This Virginia Tech professor thinks so

Could AI help predict catastrophic floods? This Virginia Tech professor thinks so

As hurricanes become increasingly stronger, we’ve started to see massive, costly and deadly flooding events up and down the East Coast — and not just near oceans, but even hundreds of miles inland. In the future, will artificial intelligence begin to help predict when those events occur? With the way things are going, the answer could be a resounding yes — at least based on studies conducted by researchers at Virginia Tech and a school in Belgiu…