Forbes July 7, 2024
The National Guard has its work cut out. As first responders to wildfires, floods and other increasingly common catastrophes, Guardsmen must rapidly deploy precisely where needed.
This presents one of the highest-stakes challenges imaginable for infotech as a field: Across the many square miles affected, which school, bridge or neighborhood most needs immediate help? Often, lives are at stake.
Google parent company Alphabet has a moonshot factory called X that aims to solve some of the world’s most critical and vexing issues, and X has developed a breakthrough solution—one that uses predictive AI in much the same way that many companies do. Here’s how X did it—and what all business professionals stand to learn about combating uncertainty and risk with...