AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported
by Rachel Hall and Ian Sample from Science | The Guardian on (#6W2EC)
Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems
A single researcher with a desktop computer will be able to deliver accurate weather forecasts using a new AI weather prediction approach that is tens of times faster and uses thousands of times less computing power than conventional systems.
Weather forecasts are currently generated through a complex set of stages, each taking several hours to run on bespoke supercomputers, requiring large teams of experts to develop, maintain and deploy them.
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