DeepMind’s New AI Beats Billion Dollar Systems - For Free!

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[MrFlibbleflobble]

I think its important to remember that a good deal of thst billion dollar industry will be involved in the collection of the data that is required for the ai to use. This will all still be needed.

[Infectd]

One could argue the billion dollar system was necessary to build the training set needed to create the AI.

[maverick.gaurav]

I don't think most of us in the comment section understand the gravity of this development. This is a revolution in AI technology. Working on something immensely complex like the planet's weather system which is dependent of tens if not hundreds of variables is mind numbingly difficult.

Moreover such application has a direct tangible impact on lives of people.

Even if the predictions are half good in this first generation paper.. Two more papers down the line, this tech might be able to give accurate predictions most of the times..

Awesome paper... 🤯

[_abdul]

My Jaw gets significantly lower each time he says " ... it get's even better".

What a time to be Alive.

[jytou]

I think the huge elephant in the room in this video is that their model runs on *a single tpu* (see 2:20 ). That really blew my mind!

[RBlnd]

I was just thinking about how it was only a matter of time before AI was used to predict the weather.

[shadowdragon]

This is awesome. I'd like to see an AI tackle predicting space weather and its effects on Earth's weather as well

[Simplicity]

I think it doesn't make sense to have this computed in your pocket if the input needed from all the weather stations needs to be transmitted over the internet anyway, right?

[JeremyDWilliamsOfficial]

In all humanity's history, technological revolutions of this magnitude have been rare.The printing press, steam engine, flight, space flight, computers and now this. And this is likely to be the biggest transformation. What a time to be alive indeed!

[UtraVioletDreams]

I've been following this channel for the past 3 years. I only see cutting edge science.
Thank you, dr With difficult name :D

[OneEpoch]

your enthusiasm is infectious! your channel is the one i trust most for grounded non hyperbolic AI news. thanks for holding on to all these papers!

[NikHem]

I wish your video titles were less clickbaity, so that I’d know what it’s about

[RBlnd]

I think this video is one of the most impressive as of late, it's just non-stop jaw dropping facts

[calorus]

I started off thinking "at least the previous model was necessary to get here". But then I realised the weather is always happening, so other than the sensors, none of the current system was required at all. Fundamentally those Billion dollar systems are now functionally worthless. And if we had never had anything other than Deep Mind and the old measurements, we would still have just skipped right here.
Utterly mind bending.

What a time to be alive.

[animanaut]

so, those graphs can be pictured like beefed up cellular automata? ca also take the neighborhood into consideration, but those graphs make this much more flexible and extensible i guess?

[morn]

"Right on the tick. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Too bad the post office isn't as efficient as the weather service." - Dr. Emmet Brown, Back to the Future 2

[Tean]

That would greatly optimize the harvesting periods, since even minutes are very important for farmers. That's a great breakthrough! Hopefully it will get better in 2 years or so.

[zildjiandrummer]

I've just started to work with GraphCast in the past week or so, and I'm blown away by this video! What a time to be alive!

[タンギナ]

Sir, your enthusiasm is an inspiration. Thank you for existing.

[HamguyBacon]

you could use this for ingame weather patterns.