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Why would we need weather models on our desktop, instead of just consuming the output of a far more powerful model? Unless people start interacting with weathe
by IncreasePosts 2y ago
Why would we need weather models on our desktop, instead of just consuming the output of a far more powerful model?
Unless people start interacting with weather forecast differently in the future it doesn't seem like something that needs personalization
- rafram 2y agoRead the article. The point is that it can run on sub-supercomputer hardware, not specifically that it can run on consumer desktops.
- avianlyric 2y agoThe title has been editorialised. The paper is about building AI weather models on par with current state-of-the-art weather models that require super computers to run. But without the need for the super computers, just a normal desktop computer is enough. That represents a huge step-change in need compute for accurate weather models, and opens up the possibility of even more accurate models, if the accuracy of these techniques scales with available compute. If you can get state-of-the-art accuracy with a desktop computer, something that normally requires a super-computer, what happens if you run those techniques on a super-computer?
- benob 2y agoDidn't read the paper, but it would be cool to apply distillation to these big physics-driven models, in order to simulate their outcome on much smaller models.
- brigandish 2y agoAdditionally (to the other replies to your question), asking for the weather is just another data point in the huge amount of surveillance occurring. If I can get the weather for my location without accessing a remote server where someone else gets to see my query and probably location, all the better. This provides that possibility.