[didibus]

I'm getting confused about the word "agent". They just mean an AI model? I don't see any level of agency here, it doesn't seem to connect to any API or such thing.

I'm also a bit confused how this differs from current weather models? Do current weather model not have any machine learning in them at all?

[Legend2440]

Google does not refer to it as an agent. This is just bad reporting from the NYTimes.

Traditional weather models are fluid dynamics simulations that numerically solve the Navier-Stokes equations. This works but is so computationally expensive that it makes neural networks look cheap.

[paxys]

"Agent" is the hot new thing in AI, so you can expect all influencers/reporters/marketers will overuse that term for the foreseeable future.