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 threadErikMar 30, 2025
@bruces “He said the model would eventually be able to produce accurate eight-day forecasts,” That moment when the article veers into hope and speculation. Does it work now?
Show threadOllie Boermans
@letterror @bruces eventually, when the sun swallows the solar system, the weather will be so predictable even an AI could do it.
Mar 31, 2025 at 3:22amToot!
Show threadErikMar 31, 2025
@ollicle @bruces Many articles on AI have this future-positive inflection where "the next iteration will be able to ___". Without acknowledging that the item currently on the table does not do any of the things, and that there is no guarantee it ever will. Just weird faith and speculation.
Show threadOllie BoermansMar 31, 2025

@letterror @bruces as a kid one of my favourite TV shows was called Beyond 2000. It was science/tech journalism on our public broadcaster –mostly about new technology that could see broader adoption in an optimistic future.

I want that future. I like feeling positive about the future! I don’t feel any positivity from the LLM hype. None at all. Seeing others who plainly do is disconcerting.

Perhaps it’s the omnipresent billionaire vibe that makes this tech smell iffy.

Show threadOllie BoermansMar 31, 2025
@letterror @bruces actually it was called Towards 2000, it’s been a while.