California's Sonoma County has turned to South Korean visual recognition AI firm, Alchera Inc. to provide early warning alerts of pending “wildfire” events (commonly described in Australia as bushfires).  Alchera will offer consulting services to develop and deliver products utilizing state-of-the-art fire detection technologies based on machine learning with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The firm's visual anomaly detection solution can detect the start of a wildfire from a simple video.

In the era of digital transformation initiatives, it’s easy to view the myriad of jobs that computers perform in a myriad of industries as magic. Many employees can’t look at a program or other digital tools and know-how it does what it does or how difficult it can be for everything to work the way it should. When encountering a problem, an employee will typically venture over to information technology (IT) and state their problem. IT will take a look at the said problem and fix it with a minute of typing and a snap of their fingers, again, just like magic.