Google's DeepMind Can Predict Wind Patterns a Day In Advance (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:30AM from the predicting-the-future dept.

technology_dude writes: Google's DeepMind can predict wind patterns one day in advance. "Beginning last year, [Google and DeepMind] fed weather forecasts and existing turbine data into DeepMind's machine learning platform, which churned out wind power predictions 36 hours ahead of actual power generation," Engadget reports. "Google could then make supply commitments to power grids a full day before delivery." According to the report, this makes the energy generated by its wind turbines more valuable (by roughly 20%). Is this a blow to Big Blue who purchased The Weather Channel's Weather.com to showcase Watson, or is it news just because it's Google?

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But can it predict.. by h33t+l4x0r · 2019-02-26 11:33 · Score: 5, Funny

A butterfly flapping it's wings in Brazil?
So what? I can do that. by alvinrod · 2019-02-26 11:47 · Score: 3, Funny

So what? I can do that.

My predictions rarely turn out to be correct, but that's besides the point.