Nvidia unveils Earth-2, a platform that lets users create AI-powered climate simulations ranging from global atmospheric conditions to local weather phenomena
and now it wants to use its digital twin to crack weather forecasting for good Bluesky: Cian / @cbdawson.bsky.social : Hmm, my list of questions and concerns is a mile long. Who designs, vets, and updates the models? What data are used, and who gets to decide that? And how do they convey the varying levels of uncertainty for different parameters? [embedded post] X: Martin Varsavsky / @martinvars : This is the issue with climate change vs air pollution. Air pollution kills 7 million a year and climate change around 20k because we are so much better than a century ago in avoiding catastrophic weather than we were a century ago when many more used to die. But we are all... Matt Lanza / @mattlanza : Remains to be seen if this is indeed 10x more precise *in practice*. There's a lot of selling of AI tools right now as companies jockey for positioning and hype. Every 1-2 weeks we are getting new tools. It will get increasingly difficult to quickly separate wheat from chaff. Sheel Mohnot / @pitdesi : Among the things that AI makes better: Weather prediction Nvidia created a digital twin, called Earth 2, to simulate extreme weather events and calculate impacts. It's 10x more precise than existing predictions, should allow for mitigation of extreme weather impacts. [image] Forums: r/climate : Nvidia announces Earth-2 digital twin to forecast planet's climate change