Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously served as a principal scientist at Microsoft Research, where he led the development of Aurora. This was the groundbreaking AI foundation model for earth system forecasting. Dr. Paris Perdikaris, welcome to WeatherBrains! Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. What is Aurora and the motivation for the program?

Practical experience and forecasting with tropical forecasting with Aurora

Success stories with Aurora

Convection-allowing models (CAMS)

Convective feedback problems with models

Emergence of the Google DeepMind ensemble and other AI models

Aurora's hardware architecture and its importance

Continuing need of physics-based models in the age of AI

Ethical considerations and biases in model training data

Role of US agencies and potential loss of funding

Communicating AI forecasts to the public and the ensuing ethical issues

Broad risks of using AI

Aurora business model

The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice

This Week in Tornado History With Jen

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