The Trump administration has pledged to invest in artificial intelligence. Yet a promising program that uses AI to solve weather-related problems lost funding from the National Science Foundation.
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The Trump administration has pledged to increase investment in artificial intelligence, but it recently cut off federal funding for a program dedicated to solving weather-related problems with AI. NPR’s Katia Riddle explains.
KATIA RIDDLE, BYLINE: Sometimes people ask Amy McGovern how she, a self-described weather geek and meteorologist, became an expert in artificial intelligence.
AMY MCGOVERN: I’ve been doing AI since before AI was cool