DeepMind AI can accurately predict if it will rain in next 90 minutes

By Matthew Sparkes

Knowing whether it volition rainfall soon is important for events similar the Wimbledon Championships

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AI developed by DeepMind and the Met Office successful the UK tin foretell rainfall much accurately than existent forecasting models implicit the precise abbreviated term.

UK-based DeepMind – an AI subsidiary of Google genitor institution Alphabet – has antecedently achieved high-profile occurrence with neural networks trained to play the crippled Go and to analyse protein folding. It has present applied its deep-learning attack to short-term rainfall “nowcasts”. These usually absorption connected the adjacent 2 hours of upwind and …

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