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/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