Neil Freiman

There are 11 models that these big hurricane forecasters use to model tracking and intensity.

Google performed by far the best out of all of those 11, and they just released it in July.

So this is brand new.

This is the first of its kind on the market, and it absolutely just crushed the competition.

I think we're looking at a revolution in weather forecasting thanks to AI.

And I just want to be clear, this isn't generative AI in the likes of ChatGPT.

They're not just putting a chatbot in weather forecasting and just asking it, where is this hurricane going to go?

This uses machine learning to look at

historical weather patterns and tease out patterns in this massive data that the average person or the average supercomputer wouldn't be able to find.

And it performed admirably well, not just on tracking the path of the hurricane, which AI models typically do pretty well, but also the intensity.

You said it's coming out party really was, Melissa, when it forecasted that that tropical storm would grow into a hurricane five.

and crushed Jamaica just a few days later.

It performed really well there.

So it's doing well on both different skills, and machine learning seems to be the future of this industry.

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