AI just changed everything about how we forecast the weather (opens in new tab)

Last October, days before Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica, it wasn’t obvious how quickly the storm would intensify or the path it would take. But inside Google, an experimental AI model was spinning through dozens of scenarios, including the possibility that it might be the strongest hurricane on record to hit the island. Five days before the storm made landfall—while traditional weather models were undecided on whether it would weaken and turn in another direction—the AI model, called...