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Title: Microsoft Says Its Aurora AI Can Accurately Predict Air Quality,
Typhoons
Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/23/2023...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: One of Microsoft's
latest AI models can accurately predict air quality, hurricanes, typhoons,
and other weather-related phenomena, the company claims. In a paper published
in the journal Nature and an accompanying blog post this week, Microsoft
detailed Aurora, which the tech giant says can forecast atmospheric events
with greater precision and speed than traditional meteorological approaches.
Aurora, which has been trained on more than a million hours of data from
satellites, radar and weather stations, simulations, and forecasts, can be
fine-tuned with additional data to make predictions for particular weather
events. AI weather models are nothing new. Google DeepMind has released a
handful over the past several years, including WeatherNext, which the lab
claims beats some of the world's best forecasting systems. Microsoft is
positioning Aurora as one of the field's top performers -- and a potential
boon for labs studying weather science. In experiments, Aurora predicted
Typhoon Doksuri's landfall in the Philippines four days in advance of the
actual event, beating some expert predictions, Microsoft says. The model also
bested the National Hurricane Center in forecasting five-day tropical cyclone
tracks for the 2022-2023 season, and successfully predicted the 2022 Iraq
sandstorm. While Aurora required substantial computing infrastructure to
train, Microsoft says the model is highly efficient to run. It generates
forecasts in seconds compared to the hours traditional systems take using
supercomputer hardware. Microsoft, which has made the source code and model
weights publicly available, says that it's incorporating Aurora's AI modeling
into its MSN Weather app via a specialized version of the model that produces
hourly forecasts, including for clouds.
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