{"id":1207944,"date":"2023-12-01T07:15:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207944"},"modified":"2023-12-01T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:15:32","slug":"the-morning-after-nasa-and-ibm-team-up-for-powerful-ai-weather-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207944","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After: NASA and IBM team up for powerful AI weather model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and IBM are building an AI model for weather and climate applications, combining their knowledge and skills in earth science and AI. They say the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/nasa-and-ibm-are-building-an-ai-for-weather-and-climate-applications-050141545.html\">foundation model<\/a> (more on that in a bit) should offer \u201csignificant advantages over existing technology.\u201d Current AI models, such as GraphCast and FourCastNet, are already generating weather forecasts more quickly than traditional meteorological models. As IBM notes, those are AI emulators rather than foundation models. AI emulators can make weather predictions based on sets of training data, but they don\u2019t have applications beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>The model may predict meteorological phenomena better, inferring high-res information based on low-res data and \u201cidentifying conditions conducive to everything from airplane turbulence to wildfires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mat Smith<\/p>\n<h3>The biggest stories you might have missed<\/h3>\n<h3 \/>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/steams-streaming-software-now-lets-you-wirelessly-play-pc-vr-games-on-quest-headsets-200502768.html\"><ins>Steam\u2019s streaming software now lets you wirelessly play PC VR games on Quest headsets<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/bipartisan-senate-bill-would-kill-the-tsas-big-brother-airport-facial-recognition-191010937.html\"><ins>Bipartisan Senate bill would kill the TSA\u2019s Big Brother airport facial recognition<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/best-android-phone-130030805.html\"><ins>The best Android phones<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/teslas-long-awaited-cybertruck-will-start-at-60990-before-rebates-211751127.html\"><ins>Tesla\u2019s long-awaited Cybertruck will start at $60,990 before rebates<\/ins><\/a>\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p><em>You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. <\/em><a data-i13n=\"cpos:6;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/about\/newsletter\/\"><em>Subscribe right here!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<h2><a data-i13n=\"cpos:7;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/evernote-officially-limits-free-users-to-50-notes-and-one-measly-notebook-174436735.html\">Evernote officially limits free users to 50 notes and one measly notebook<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>\u2018We recognize these changes may lead you to reconsider your relationship with Evernote.\u2019<\/h3>\n<h3 \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/evernote-officially-limits-free-users-to-50-notes-and-one-measly-notebook-174436735.html\"><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" data-crop-orig-src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2023-12\/14f3d0d0-903a-11ee-b77f-42658314ae17\" style=\"height:576px;width:960px\" alt=\"TMA\" data-uuid=\"fda4f532-4b9b-3a9b-bb8b-eb906c69e926\" \/><figcaption \/>\n<div class=\"photo-credit\">Evernote<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evernote\u2019s new, tightly leashed plan will restrict new and current accounts to 50 notes and one notebook. Existing free customers who exceed those limits can still use their notes, but they\u2019ll need to upgrade to a paid plan to create new ones. Evernote\u2019s premium plans include a $15 monthly Personal plan with 10GB of monthly uploads. That\u2019s a pricey subscription for what is dedicated note cloud storage. When Evernote\u2019s parent company, Bending Spoons, moved its operations from the US and Chile to Europe, it said the app had been \u201cunprofitable for years.\u201d That push into socks<a data-i13n=\"cpos:8;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016-02-02-evernote-online-market-closes.html\"> <ins>didn\u2019t work<\/ins><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:9;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/evernote-officially-limits-free-users-to-50-notes-and-one-measly-notebook-174436735.html\"><strong>Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<h2><a data-i13n=\"cpos:10;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-us-government-is-no-longer-briefing-meta-about-foreign-influence-campaigns-130019156.html\">The US government halts Meta briefings on foreign influence campaigns<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>Officials have \u201cpaused\u201d tips to Meta.<\/h3>\n<h3 \/>\n<p>Meta says the government \u201cpaused\u201d in July briefings related to foreign election interference, eliminating a key source of information for the company. During a call with reporters, Meta\u2019s head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, declined to speculate on the government\u2019s motivations, but the timing lines up with a<a data-i13n=\"cpos:11;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/judge-blocks-federal-officials-from-contacting-tech-companies-192554203.html\"> <ins>court order earlier this year<\/ins><\/a> that restricted the Biden Administration\u2019s contact with social media firms.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure comes as the company ramps up its efforts to prepare for multiple elections in 2024, and the inevitable attempts to manipulate political conversations on Facebook. The company said in its latest report on CIB that China is now the third-most common source of coordinated inauthentic behavior on its platform, behind Russia and Iran.<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:12;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-us-government-is-no-longer-briefing-meta-about-foreign-influence-campaigns-130019156.html\"><strong>Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<h2><a data-i13n=\"cpos:13;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/google-messages-now-lets-you-choose-your-own-chat-bubble-colors-170042264.html\">Google Messages now lets you choose your own chat bubble colors<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>But this has nothing to do with messaging iPhones and all that drama.<\/h3>\n<h3 \/>\n<p>Google is rolling out a string of updates for the Messages app, including customizable text bubbles and background colors. So, if you really want, you can have blue bubbles in your Android messaging app. You can even have a different color for each chat, which could help prevent you from telling the wrong thing to the wrong person. But none of this means nothing to iPhone users and has nothing to do with the prolonged toing and froing on text message compatibility.<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:14;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/google-messages-now-lets-you-choose-your-own-chat-bubble-colors-170042264.html\"><strong>Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<span id=\"end-legacy-contents\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><a data-i13n=\"cpos:15;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/how-openais-chatgpt-has-changed-the-world-in-just-a-year-140050053.html\">How OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT has changed the world in just a year<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>The generative AI chatbot has helped kickstart a multibillion-dollar industry.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/how-openais-chatgpt-has-changed-the-world-in-just-a-year-140050053.html\"><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" data-crop-orig-src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2023-12\/14dbdc00-903a-11ee-b7ba-e0353445b42e\" style=\"height:583px;width:875px\" alt=\"TMA\" data-uuid=\"eb083040-2148-3f17-b51a-a6b7a0ac287f\" \/><figcaption \/>\n<div class=\"photo-credit\">SOPA Images via Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT exploded in popularity, from niche online curio to 100 million monthly active users \u2014 the fastest user base growth in the history of the internet. In less than a year, it has earned the backing of Silicon Valley\u2019s biggest firms, as well as being shoehorned into myriad applications from academia and the arts to marketing, medicine, gaming and government. ChatGPT is just about <em>everywhere<\/em>. Engadget\u2019s Andrew Tarantola looks at the blazing first year of OpenAI\u2019s chatbot.<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:16;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/how-openais-chatgpt-has-changed-the-world-in-just-a-year-140050053.html\"><strong>Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a>\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<h3 \/>\n<p \/>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-morning-after-nasa-and-ibm-team-up-for-powerful-ai-weather-model-121532358.html?src=rss&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Engadget &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-morning-after-nasa-and-ibm-team-up-for-powerful-ai-weather-model-121532358.html?src=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Morning After: NASA and IBM team up for powerful AI weather model<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and IBM are building an AI model for weather and climate applications, combining their knowledge and skills in earth science and AI. They say the foundation model (more on that in a bit) should offer \u201csignificant advantages over existing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207944\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1207944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}