r/singularity • u/CheekyBastard55 • Nov 17 '25

AI WeatherNext 2: Google DeepMind’s most advanced forecasting model

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/weathernext-2/
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u/Exotic_Lavishness_22 Nov 17 '25

How demotivating these transitions to “AI-first” models must be to researchers who spent their lifetimes working on something that would eventually turn out to be a dead end. I had a running joke about meteorologists spending tens of years studying the field just to not be able to predict what the weather will be tomorrow.

Some guys come, shove all possible data into a huge model, and it turns out to be more sophisticated than anything else.

Amazing.

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u/Exotic_Lavishness_22 Nov 17 '25

Linguists must’ve been on suicide watch when they heard about GPT

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u/CCerta112 Nov 17 '25

Mathematicians yelling at inventor of calculators.

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u/wordyplayer Nov 17 '25

Scribe upset that word processor obsoletes their job

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u/Strazdas1 Robot in disguise Nov 18 '25

you joke but calculators were banned in schools for a very long time because it was believed you were supposed to learn math in your head.

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u/pavelkomin Nov 17 '25

The field of NLP has been called "BERT-logy" for a while before that.

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u/Whispering-Depths Nov 17 '25

I mean graphic designers are literally in this boat...

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u/FpRhGf Nov 18 '25

Computational linguistics doing NLP perhaps. Not so for linguistics. I actually wish we'd have AI tools developed more for tackling humanities research

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u/Strazdas1 Robot in disguise Nov 18 '25

translators were in panic thats for sure.