“Googling” today’s forecast could soon be even more reliable.
Just like your friendly TV meteorologist, current weather models could perhaps be a thing of the past. Google has unveiled an AI meteorology tech that is far faster and more accurate than traditional forecasts, per a study published in the journal “Nature.”
Devised by the search engine firm’s AI division, DeepMind, the “GenCast” model can tell if it’s going to rain 15 days ahead of time at a higher accuracy rate than the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ ENS (ECMWF) — the world’s top operational forecasting system, per the Google Deepmind blog.
This discrepancy has to do with a completely new monsoon-divining methodology. Whereas current iterations are “deterministic, and provided a single, best estimate of future weather,” GenCast “comprises an ensemble of 50 or more predictions, each representing a possible weather trajectory,” the blog’s authors write.
So how will this be weaponized against the public?
