Environmental scientists are increasingly using enormous artificial intelligence models to make predictions about changes in weather and climate, but a new study by MIT researchers shows that bigger models are not always better.
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A recent study published in Science used glacier models to better understand the effect that each degree of global warming will have on worldwide glacier melt.
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