Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts (opens in new tab)

(nytimes.com)

49 pointsctc241y ago7 comments

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I'm getting confused about the word "agent". They just mean an AI model? I don't see any level of agency here, it doesn't seem to connect to any API or such thing.

I'm also a bit confused how this differs from current weather models? Do current weather model not have any machine learning in them at all?

Legend24401y ago

Google does not refer to it as an agent. This is just bad reporting from the NYTimes.

Traditional weather models are fluid dynamics simulations that numerically solve the Navier-Stokes equations. This works but is so computationally expensive that it makes neural networks look cheap.

paxys1y ago

"Agent" is the hot new thing in AI, so you can expect all influencers/reporters/marketers will overuse that term for the foreseeable future.

nitwit0051y ago

Google blog post: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gencast-predicts-weath...

dartos1y ago

I feel like deep mind is the only large tech organization really trying to apply machine learning to domains outside of text, sound, and images (read: content)

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crazygringo1y ago

Gift link (no paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/google-ai-weather...

wkat42421y ago

I built something like this by mistake :)

I was working on integrating a weather tool in OpenWebUI for llama3. And I noticed it was always one or two degrees off. I spent a while looking for a wrong conversion factor until i realized that it wasn't using the tool at all. It was just hallucinating based on the date and location and giving me typical weather readouts. It was only that it was so close to reality that I didn't notice :)))

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