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icefire555 t1_isrj04e wrote

Reply to comment by NinjaLanternShark in Spooky artificial intelligence found to accurately predict the future by 99% by Stephen_P_Smith

Yeah, I'm 100% sure we would have never learned about it if it was able to predict the stock market with that accuracy.

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tucci007 t1_isrvtbl wrote

feed it all the information in existence about chickens, then everything about roads

then ask it, why did the chicken cross the road

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ashakar t1_isrs42z wrote

Nothing ever will because you have too many irrational actors.

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GregTheMad t1_isrt3lj wrote

How many? 8 billion? That's not much when it comes to computing. Most of them probably can even be grouped together. Depending on what you ask maybe only a handful is needed, like world leaders. The only challenge is getting the model right, and feeding it good data.

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ashakar t1_isrtkkv wrote

I was specifically referring to the stock market. Shopping and ad algorithms already work pretty damn good at predicting what to show you.

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icefire555 t1_isrug5t wrote

Yeah. well even if it was 75% accurate at predicting the stock market it would be a secret till death.

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Sonamdrukpa t1_iss8hiw wrote

If you could get 50.1% your grandchildren would be buying islands in the Caribbean for their grandchildren

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ashakar t1_isrul8o wrote

Black swan events would still fuck you. They are already using AI bots to make trades.

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starfleetdropout6 t1_isrxpzb wrote

"We" would never know. The elite would keep it a secret to enrich themselves.

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theminglepringle t1_isrukcr wrote

That’s easy you just have to have enough money own a lot of shares in a company sell them all watch as the price plummet’s because everyone one else who own shares in it get scared then buy back your shares or more for a lower price rinse and repeat

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