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Combining two neural networks has helped researchers predict potentially disastrous collapses in complex systems, such as financial crashes or power blackouts
24 July 2024 Tipping points can leave once lush forests dried out Piotr Poznan/Shutterstock AI can predict when complex systems like forests, animal populations or the power grid will suddenly start behaving very differently. Identifying such tipping points may help avert disastrous collapses in biology or human infrastructure.
“History is full of harmful critical transitions, such as financial market crashes, disease outbreaks and blackouts,” says Gang Yan at Tongji University in China.
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