Weather agency starts development of AI to predict wind events

high-wind events

is that anything like high winds?

So it is windy, self driving cars will slow down to 20km/h and I am one hour late for work.

Second the complaint about simply predicting rain. I know cute girls wielding sticks fruit at the end are supposed to inspire confidence but... This month has been one of the worst I can remember. I woke up this morning and and saw sunshine in the forecast with only a 10% chance of rain--opened the curtains and, you guessed it, it's raining. This past week was initially to be completely dry--we ended up with two thunderstorms, boufu like winds, frequent showers and a rainbow. I won't be expecting AI to do much better but they could hardly do worse.

For people getting inaccurate weather forecasts, are you in Kanto?

Usually the best predictor of a coming "wind-event" is someone saying "pull my finger."

They are going to use AI to predict the weather? That’s a great way to shift the blame.

There is nothing as bad as wind... if we could predict it it would save many people in crowded areas and elevators.

My solution to help self driving cars during those particular moments is just to switch to manual mode and drive it yourself.

I can't remember which comedian it was but they said it best when they said "weather people are the only people that can be wrong all the time and still keep their jobs."

As for helping a self driving car in a tornado, there is only one solution. Drive the other way.

the Meteorological Research Institute's prototype system has been able to detect the formation of high wind events with a 90 percent accuracy, the officials said.

I will believe this when I see it.

Why the obsession with using the term "AI" for anything related to computers here?

Why the obsession with using the term "AI" for anything related to computers here?

It's a keyword of the day, but the problem is that it's a term that encompasses an extremely wide range of functionality.

Basically any computer script that makes automatic determinations without human intervention is AI. This could be anything from the automatic timer on a light that turns it on at a set time, to AIs of the future that will manage traffic and airline patterns around the whole world.

This wide range of meaning means that it's a term that can be applied to pretty much anything computer related.

Sorry but you are wrong. Computer scripts written by humans, tell a computer how to react depending on inputs from sensors etc. No one yet has any idea if AI is even possible, as Hawkins pointed out. A Sony Aibo thinking it needs to take a dump isn't enough. Believe me, I have met people here who dream to have a robot, I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Basically any computer script that makes automatic determinations without human intervention is AI. This could be anything from the automatic timer on a light that turns it on at a set time, to AIs of the future that will manage traffic and airline patterns around the whole world.

Sorry but you are wrong. Computer scripts written by humans, tell a computer how to react depending on inputs from sensors etc.

Yeah, that's what people describe using the term 'AI' these days.

No one yet has any idea if AI is even possible

It already exists.