Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

I feel like deep mind is the only large tech organization really trying to apply machine learning to domains outside of text, sound, and images (read: content)

Re: Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

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Post by didibus » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 4:08 AM UTC

I'm getting confused about the word "agent". They just mean an AI model? I don't see any level of agency here, it doesn't seem to connect to any API or such thing.

I'm also a bit confused how this differs from current weather models? Do current weather model not have any machine learning in them at all?

Re: Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

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Post by Legend2440 » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 5:26 AM UTC

didibus wrote: post #6

I'm getting confused about the word "agent". They just mean an AI model? I don't see any level of agency here, it doesn't seem to connect to any API or such thing. I'm also a bit confused how this differs from current weather models? Do current weather model not have any machine learning in them at all?

Google does not refer to it as an agent. This is just bad reporting from the NYTimes.

Traditional weather models are fluid dynamics simulations that numerically solve the Navier-Stokes equations. This works but is so computationally expensive that it makes neural networks look cheap.

Re: Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 5:52 AM UTC

dartos wrote: post #5

I feel like deep mind is the only large tech organization really trying to apply machine learning to domains outside of text, sound, and images (read: content)

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Re: Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

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Post by paxys » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 6:43 AM UTC

didibus wrote: post #6

I'm getting confused about the word "agent". They just mean an AI model? I don't see any level of agency here, it doesn't seem to connect to any API or such thing. I'm also a bit confused how this differs from current weather models? Do current weather model not have any machine learning in them at all?

"Agent" is the hot new thing in AI, so you can expect all influencers/reporters/marketers will overuse that term for the foreseeable future.

Re: Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

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Post by wkat4242 » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

I built something like this by mistake :)

I was working on integrating a weather tool in OpenWebUI for llama3. And I noticed it was always one or two degrees off. I spent a while looking for a wrong conversion factor until i realized that it wasn't using the tool at all. It was just hallucinating based on the date and location and giving me typical weather readouts. It was only that it was so close to reality that I didn't notice :)))