Can AI predict mass human behavior, such as an election?

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Can AI predict mass human behavior, such as an election? Of the past is anything to go by, write possibly. Which, for this term, is terrifying.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/28/donald-trump-will-win-the-election-and-is-more-popular-than-obama-in-2008-ai-system-finds.html

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Bryce Miller said…
The thing has only lived through two elections. That's not much of a lifetime of experience.
October 28, 2016 at 12:32 PM
Bodhipaksa said…
Two elections. A 50/50 chance of correctly predicting each one. One in four monkeys would have had the same success rate!
October 28, 2016 at 1:52 PM
Nick McIntosh said…
I this the third of these I've seen this week. It's as if the press doesn't want to believe every poll and projection out there predicting a Clinton win/blowout.

Blowouts aren't newsworthy so let's pull out the 70 year old guy who claims to have predicted every election since Carter or that crazy AI. Whatever it takes to keep people clawing for every tidbit of election news.
October 28, 2016 at 3:14 PM
Peter Szakaly said…
He Only popular,in short
Cirkuit Brains.Hitler unokája.
October 29, 2016 at 12:13 AM
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