Here's two stories that show the dichotomy of AI at the moment. YouTube will "require creators to disclose when they've created altered or synthetic content that is realistic, including using AI tools". Particularly important for "sensitive topics, such as elections, ongoing conflicts and public health crises, or public officials". Very bad, do not like this, please make it stop. On the other hand, Google DeepMind has a new AI meteorology model called GraphCast that "demonstrated superior performance over the world's leading conventional system, operated by the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts. In a comprehensive evaluation, GraphCast outperformed ECMWF's system in 90% of 1,380 metrics". Which is great, but even DeepMind says that "our approach should not be regarded as a replacement for traditional weather forecasting methods", "which have been developed for decades, rigorously tested in many real-world contexts, and offer many features we have not yet explored".
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