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At last month's International Rain Enhancement Forum in Abu Dhabi, officials held out a new hope: harnessing artificial intelligence to wring more moisture out of often cloudless skies, reports AFP. Among the initiatives is an AI system to improve cloud seeding, the practice of using planes to fire salt or other chemicals into clouds to increase rain.

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Cloud seeding works by increasing the size of droplets, which then fall as rain. It's estimated to increase rainfall by 10-15%. But it only works with certain types of puffy, cumulus clouds, and can even suppress rainfall if not done properly. Th...