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DeepMind's GenCast AI is really good at forecasting the weather (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Pretty much the only thing I think AI could be useful for - forecasting the weather based off tracking massive amounts of data. I look forward to seeing how this particular field of study is improved.

Bonus points, AI weather modeling, for once, saves energy relative to physics models. Pair it with some sort of light weight physical model to keep the hallucinations at bay, and you've got a good combo.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's an insanely complex, coupled system full of turbulence, so that "theoretically" is doing some heavy lifting. The best models now need to be run on supercomputers, despite scores of scientists and software people constantly trying to find further optimizations for the algorithms. AI isn't going to better discriminate signal from noise when the biggest constraint on the existing S/N ratio is the lack of suffiicient compute resource.

Furthermore, unless the AI does explainability, which it almost certainly doesn't, nobody's going to use its output in life-and-limb-critical applications like first responders, defense, even road gritting.