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DeepMind's GenCast AI is really good at forecasting the weather


On Wednesday, Google’s DeepMind division announced what may go down as the most significant advancement in weather forcasting in nearly eight decades of work.

In a post on the Google Keyword blog, DeepMind’s Ilan Price and Matthew Wilson detailed GenCast, the company’s latest AI agent. “I’m a little bit reluctant to say it, but it’s like we’ve made decades worth of improvements in one year,” Rémi Lam, the lead scientist on DeepMind’s previous AI weather program, told The New York Times. One area the software could provide better predictions on is hurricane intensity, though the DeepMind team told The Times it was confident it could find solutions for the agent’s current shortcomings.

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