“Hurricane Erin shocked forecasters when it intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours. 

As the storm churned eastward through the Atlantic and threatened parts of the East Coast, including South Florida, meteorologists closely monitored its path.

Among the tools being tested was Google’s new DeepMind-powered artificial intelligence hurricane forecast model, which received its first real-time trial during Erin’s development.

James Franklin, former chief of the Hurricane Specialist Unit at the National Hurricane Center, said the AI model performed exceptionally well.

‘It did very, very well,’ Franklin said. ‘The Google DeepMind model did it a little bit better than any of the other ones.'”

From CBS News.