AI is really good at one game: "What comes next?" It looks at patterns and makes a smart guess. Weather AI guesses if rain is coming. You can play the same game right now!
If you can see the pattern, you can make a smart guess, just like AI!
Move the slider to make it rain a little or A LOT. Watch the water rise next to the little house. Your job: guess when it becomes a flood BEFORE it happens. That guess is called a prediction, and flood AI makes it to keep people safe.
The one idea this week: prediction means using past patterns to guess what happens next. The rain slider shows the cause-and-effect chain a real flood model learns: more rain, higher water, flood warning. When grown-up models do this with months of data, it is called time series forecasting; it is how weather services and tourism boards plan ahead.
1. Weather guesser (Tuesday to Thursday). ⛅ Every evening, guess tomorrow's weather: sunny, cloudy, or rainy. Write it down. Next day, check! How many did you get right?
2. Pattern hunter (weekend). 👀 Find 3 patterns around you: tiles on the floor, beats in a song, stripes on a lizard. Point them out to a grown-up.
3. Flood game rematch. 🌊 One more round of the Flood Prediction game. Is your flood AI getting better at guessing where the water goes?
Play the Flood Prediction game →