New AI Weather Forecasting System Called a Huge Step Forward

Monday, March 24, 2025

The Aardvark Weather system will be several thousand times faster than current forecasting methods, and more accurate.

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... Researchers at the University of Cambridge, together with the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research, and the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, have developed a new AI-based weather forecasting system " Aardvark Weather " that could revolutionize the field of meteorology.

Aardvark Weather can apparently provide weather forecasts that are tens of times more accurate, while requiring dramatically less computing power than modern systems. "Aardvark is thousands of times faster than all previous methods of weather forecasting," Professor Richard Turner of Cambridge's Department of Engineering, who led the research, said in a statement. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-23 10:17 PM | Reply

The system will also advise that the human race is doomed and that individual people are better off killing themselves.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-24 08:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Anyone want to place bets on how long until this is found to be ------------ that over-promises and under-delivers?

#3 | Posted by s1l3ntc0y0t3 at 2025-03-24 09:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Can't get people to buy in without overpromising or outright lying

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-03-24 09:18 AM | Reply

Yea, uh huh. Bring it to Okiehomie, where we get all four seasons in one day...

Asking for my neighbors: is this new system include Sharpies?

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-03-24 09:21 AM | Reply

I have no doubt that AI output will be equivalent or superior to human products, if it's not already. But:

Why AI-generated hands are the stuff of nightmares, explained by a scientist
Whether it's hands with seven fingers or extra long palms, AI just can't seem to get it right.
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#6 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-24 09:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Anyone want to place bets on how long until this is found to be ------------ that over-promises and under-delivers?

#3 | Posted by s1l3ntc0y0t3

So, in other words, AI.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-24 10:00 AM | Reply

And you won't know if it works until after the weather services is disbanded and it's too late to do anything about it. Which I believe is the Plan.

But hey. There is always the weather channel.

"I don't need your weather satellites. I have the Weather Channel,"

Did I quote you correctly maga republicans?

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-24 11:49 AM | Reply

@#8 ... "I don't need your weather satellites. I have the Weather Channel," ...

Back around 2015, IBM bought all of The Weather Channel assets (e.g., the weather.com website and the Weather Channel's data processing operations) except for the Weather Channel cable network operations (e.g., the studios in Atlanta).

If I remember correctly, IBM has since sold its weather assets.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-24 12:20 PM | Reply

Doesn't matter who owns it, Lamp, the Weather Channel, along with every local news station and independent forecaster, uses the same NWS data to build their forecasts.

Even my friend that does forecasting for an energy company uses NWS data.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-24 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#10 ... Doesn't matter who owns it, Lamp, the Weather Channel, along with every local news station and independent forecaster, uses the same NWS data to build their forecasts. ...

I agree.

Apologies if my comment indicated otherwise, it was not my intention to do so.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-24 02:28 PM | Reply

this is no big deal.

there are many tried and true weather predictors...

if my right knee hurts it's gonna rain...

if my left hip stops hurting it's gonna be partly cloudy...

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-03-24 07:01 PM | Reply

"Researchers at the University of Cambridge, together with the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research, and the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, have developed a new AI-based weather forecasting system "

Excuse me but did the article say Akan Turing Institute?

"Alan Turing was not sentenced to death, but he was convicted of "gross indecency" for homosexual acts and
How can we believe in scientific research conducted by an Institute named after a man convicted of homosexual acts? considering that his name will probably be banned from history text books any time now.

#13 | Posted by danni at 2025-03-25 07:19 AM | Reply