If New York’s worst recorded rainfall is 200 mm, what could a plausible 300-mm storm look like? MIT built an AI system to map extreme events that have never happened before
The method, called Extreme Event Aware, or “η-learning”, does not need previous extreme events to create these scenarios. (Representational AP photo) What would a once-in-a-century storm look like if it was stronger than anything recorded before? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a machine-learning method that can generate realistic scenarios for…
