Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

I&#x27;m getting confused about the word &quot;agent&quot;. They just mean an AI model? I don&#x27;t see any level of agency here, it doesn&#x27;t seem to connect to any API or such thing.<p>I&#x27;m also a bit confused how this differs from current weather models? Do current weather model not have any machine learning in them at all?

Google blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepmind.google&#x2F;discover&#x2F;blog&#x2F;gencast-predicts-weather-and-the-risks-of-extreme-conditions-with-sota-accuracy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepmind.google&#x2F;discover&#x2F;blog&#x2F;gencast-predicts-weath...</a>

I feel like deep mind is the only large tech organization really trying to apply machine learning to domains outside of text, sound, and images (read: content)

Gift link (no paywall): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;04&#x2F;science&#x2F;google-ai-weather-forecast.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e04.Qc1K.PONREzbsrp-8&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;04&#x2F;science&#x2F;google-ai-weather...</a>

I built something like this by mistake :)<p>I was working on integrating a weather tool in OpenWebUI for llama3. And I noticed it was always one or two degrees off. I spent a while looking for a wrong conversion factor until i realized that it wasn&#x27;t using the tool at all. It was just hallucinating based on the date and location and giving me typical weather readouts. It was only that it was so close to reality that I didn&#x27;t notice :)))