Early returns suggest AI is capable of eerily accurate forecast tracks even as models still need to improve their skill with other metrics. — Photo by NASA on Unsplash
When Hurricane Beryl was rushing across the Atlantic basin in July, the weather forecasting tool made by Google Deepmind, the tech company’s artificial intelligence unit, saw something other models missed.
Deepmind’s AI-driven program, called GraphCast, forecast the storm would take a sharp turn away from southern Mexico to southern Texas nearly a week earlier than conventional forecasts did – and it was right.
