Bruce Sterling @brucesMar 30, 2025

*Slop weather.

*What the heck, if it's .99 cents, everybody will buy it

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/20/ai-aardvark-weather-prediction-forecasting-artificial-intelligence

AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported

Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems

The Guardian
Show threadFazal Majid

@bruces please don't be knee-jerk about this. The ECMWF is Europe's forecasting model, generally considered the best in the world, and they found using AI improves their forecasts by 20%:

https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2025/ecmwfs-ai-forecasts-become-operational

ECMWF’s AI forecasts become operational

ECMWF has taken the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today, 25 February 2025, to run side by side with its traditional physics-based Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) to advance numerical weather prediction.

ECMWF
Mar 30, 2025 at 10:08pmWeb