[Majromax]

> That being said, 99% of AI out there is just masters thesis level data in -> prediction out, but that is far from what the useful AI models that are currently being developed to predict and forecast dynamical physical systems.

I think one surprising outcome of the recent wave of ML-based weather forecasting models is just how accurate the "dumb" approaches are. Pangu-Weather and a couple of its peers are essentially vision transformers without much explicit physics-informed regularization.