Local climate services for all, courtesy of large language models
Nikolay Koldunov, Thomas Jung
Abstract
Large language models can summarize, aggregate, and convey localized climate-related data to people in a cost-effective and expeditious manner. We have built a simple, proof-of-concept prototype and argue that the approach holds the potential to truly democratize climate information. Large language models can summarize, aggregate, and convey localized climate-related data to people in a cost-effective and expeditious manner. This Comment introduces a simple, proof-of-concept prototype and argues that the approach holds the potential to truly democratize climate information.
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