A Colorado Senate committee has voted to use A.I. to detect blazes before they burn out of control
The $2 million pilot program would involve putting cameras on mountaintops, and using the technology to detect the early signs of a wildfire.
The deployment of A.I. is part of an ongoing effort by firefighters, to use new tech to become smarter about how they prepare and better position their resources.
Lookout towers once staffed by humans have largely been replaced by cameras in remote areas, many of them in high-definition and armed with artificial intelligence to discern a smoke plume from morning fog.
