China, during the World Conference of Earthquake, showed how artificial intelligence can prevent earthquakes in the future. The demonstration, or presumed such, was done through simulations with the intervention of a Professor from Beijing. This “experiment” is not only valid for earthquakes, but also for other dramatic events such as fires and pandemics. But let’s see, in detail, how artificial intelligence can be a great tool for prevention.
How AI Can Prevent EarthquakesProfessor Lu’s Words
How AI Can Prevent Earthquakes
Through generative AI, futuristic skyscrapers are projected that then end up collapsing to the ground. The tool, in particular, focuses on what the critical points of a building could be, calculates the trajectory of debris during a collapse and suggests to those who are evacuating the safest area to go. Certainly a very interesting novelty and, above all, a just cause carried out by artificial intelligence that many still view with skepticism, but which in this case proves to be very useful and could also save lives.
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Professor Lu’s words
During the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (Wcee 2024), held in Milan at the beginning of July and which had China among its protagonists, Professor Xinzheng Lu, from Tsinghua University in Beijing, spoke and highlighted how this AI is not based on historical data, but takes physics into account, as other models are not very close to reality in his opinion.
His words on the simulation: “It starts from millions of drawings and human experience, it generates structural projects from scratch for several new cases…”. And he added, moreover, that thanks to 2D and 3D animations it is possible to “see like in a film the damage to each building that was caused by a hypothetical earthquake in your city, moment by moment. And it makes some mechanisms better understood even by non-experts, for example how population density impacts the resilience of a city”.
