"As ‘far-fetched' as it sounds our ultimate goal will be to present our viewers with ‘a fairly accurate news forecast, of 'tomorrow's news today'."
tomorrow's news today
I thought this was a joke but they seem pretty serious.
Over time, the companies team, which includes MIT mathematicians and Cambridge machine learning experts, aspires to forecast a myriad of topics including sports outcomes, market dynamics, Oscar winners and even election results.
It'll probably do better than humans eventually but if it ever becomes very accurate, it'll challenge our ideas about how free and undetermined the world is.
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Arguably a bit scary but interesting anyway. Reminded me of Minority Report...
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