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