Yes, but I can bet they would not tell anybody if something heavy would come within usa. ? but more constructively, I am wondering what kind of intelligent answer a machine will be capable of telling to us when we will successfully be able to do OCR on math books at large. There are millions of them + all the articles on Arxiv and such places. Already there is a base of knowledge being constructed based on all the data within wikipedia in all languages called YAGO, it can be downloaded for the ones that like to experiment on these matters. Also there is a base available from google, it is the raw result of all the scanning they have been doing on books, it is available to anybody, I searched into it, interesting but it contains (in french for example) a lot of garbage data. Can a machine do mathematics and inference if it has millions of mathematical identities translatable into maple or mathematica ??? a kind of omega machine (after wolfram alpha, n'th version)... simon plouffe Le 26/sept./2011 06:30, Henry Baker a écrit :
People are already trying to game the financial markets by watching Twitter feeds.
I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of info isn't being used to predict and/or affect elections.
I read the article about predicting revolutions, but they didn't say when to expect a revolution here in the U.S.
At 04:15 PM 9/25/2011, Simon Plouffe wrote:
Hello,
there are 2 recent news that are worth looking at :
http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/29/pre-cog-is-real-%E2%80%93-new-software-...
http://singularityhub.com/2011/09/25/supercomputer-predicts-revolution/
This reminds me of that old idea of Isaac Asimov about psycho-history that everybody found kind of way out at the time (including me)!,
This means that with enough computer juice and a suitable set of data, like hundreds of millions of articles an heuristic program can predict 'something'.
A good question is, they had this Watson machine capable of answering a general question, then this engine that can predict a political movement and that later one that can predict human behaviour, then what's next ??
Best regards, Simon Plouffe