Scientists and engineers at Science Advances have developed a "compelling and novel" artificial intelligence (AI) solution that amplifies seismographs by up to 17 times so they can pick out very small earthquakes. In an article published in Harvard University, the team explained how they trained AI software to ignore the Earth's usual geological noises and focus on quakes that were either very far away or very small – in the same way Alexa or Siri pick out voice commands amid domestic noise – detecting quakes of zero or minus one.
Scientists and engineers at Harvard University have developed a "compelling and novel" artificial intelligence (AI) solution that amplifies seismographs by up to 17 times so they can pick out very small earthquakes. In an article published in Science Advances, the team explained how they trained AI software to ignore the Earth's usual geological noises and focus on quakes that were either very far away or very small – in the same way Alexa or Siri pick out voice commands amid domestic noise – detecting quakes of zero or minus one.