Google’s New AI Model Predicts Forecasts ‘Faster than Meteorologists’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Google’s new artificial intelligence program, SEEDS, can purportedly predict forecasts “faster than meteorologists” can.
“Scalable Ensemble Envelope Diffusion Sampley, or SEEDS for short, uses the power of AI to generate numerous weather forecasts in a short amount of time. This in turn allows researchers to analyze a wider range of possible weather outcomes, and can even predict natural disasters days or weeks before they happen,” Relevant Magazine said.
“Accurate weather forecasts can have a direct impact on people’s lives, from helping make routine decisions,” Google said. “The importance of accurate and timely weather forecasts will only increase as the climate changes. Recognizing this, we at Google have been investing in weather and climate research to help ensure that the forecasting technology of tomorrow can meet the demand for reliable weather information.”
Google says SEEDS even predicts rare events that current weather prediction programs miss.
Analytic Insight reported, “A key strength of SEED lies in its capacity to quantify uncertainty within weather forecasts. Given the ‘butterfly effect’ concept, where minor alterations can lead to significant variations, this feature holds particular relevance in meteorology. SEED’s probabilistic methodology enhances comprehension of the likelihood of diverse weather scenarios, offering essential insights for planning and decision-making, especially in the context of extreme weather occurrences.”
“This technology opens up novel opportunities for weather and climate science, and it represents one of the first applications to weather and climate forecasting of probabilistic diffusion models,” Google said in its statement with graphs, charts and other visual data included.
Live Science added that the model is also cheaper than current programs.
SEEDS also predicts events ahead of what meteorologists and current programs can accurately predict, which is usually a few days. SEEDS can predict events a week in advance.
“We believe that SEEDS represents just one of the many ways that AI will accelerate progress in operational numerical weather prediction in coming years,” Google said.
Geoffrey Hinton, a well-known name in the world of artificial intelligence creation, quit working for Google last year over AI concerns.
Movieguide® reported:
Geoffrey Hinton, “the grandfather of A.I.,” resigned from Google on May 1st due to major concerns about the pace that A.I. is being developed.
Hinton led a team of graduate students to create the first neural network in 2012 while teaching at the University of Toronto. His neural network mimicked the function of the brain and could train itself to identify common objects after being given sample photos. At the time, many experts doubted this approach to A.I. would lead anywhere. Now it’s the method that all top-of-the-line A.I. products use…
When ChatGPT was released to the public in November of last year with immediate success, Hinton got to see just how far his groundbreaking work had progressed. However, as Microsoft and Google were starting to race to create the strongest A.I., he began to question the ethics of their choice.
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