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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

AI sucks at hurricane forecasting...and geography

This diagram indicates this year's hurricanes will leave eastern Europe underwater. Also, check out how close South America and Africa are. 


AI can give correct answers when knowledgeable humans training it reach a consensus. Otherwise, it's more like the audience poll in Who Wants To Be a Millionaire when nobody knows the right answer. 

It's good at averaging large datasets together, but that does nothing to solve the garbage in, garbage out problem. 

This is amusing, but I doubt very much the predictions are correct.



Check out this nonsense:


When I think about all the time and money used to build up massive AI infrastructure, it just makes me sad, because it will mostly be used for stuff people could and should do with existing technology. It's a fun toy, I admit, but it's not going to tell us anything we did not tell it first. 

Oh well. At least office drones have been liberated from the terrible burden of writing their own emails. 

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