Google Develops Highly Accurate AI-Enhanced Weather Simulator
The model can match or improve on existing weather projections and accurately captures warming from climate change, researchers say.
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Photographer: Mike Kai Chen/BloombergA new, AI-enhanced simulator can match the accuracy of conventional weather forecasts and can also extrapolate how much the atmosphere has warmed with climate change. The simulator could lead to the development of weather and climate modeling tools that require a small fraction of the computing power needed today, according to the Google-led research team behind it. The research was published Monday in Nature.
By using a hybrid approach combining standard physics-driven models with a machine-learning tool, the team avoided problems seen in experiments using only AI, said Stephan Hoyer, the Google researcher who leads the project. “We’ve really tried to try to pull apart the black box, instead of having just a pure AI model,” he said.