AI says: Trump wins election, more popular than Obama 2008

[jimnyc]

If the robot says so, then it HAS to be right. :coffee:

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Trump will win the election and is more popular than Obama in 2008, AI system finds

An artificial intelligence (AI) system that correctly predicted the last three U.S. presidential elections puts Republican nominee Donald Trump ahead of Democrat rival Hillary Clinton in the race to the White House.

MogIA was developed by Sanjiv Rai, the founder of Indian start-up Genic.ai. It takes in 20 million data points from public platforms including Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the U.S. and then analyzes the information to create predictions.

The AI system was created in 2004, so it has been getting smarter all the time. It had already correctly predicted the results of the Democrat and Republican Primaries.

Data such as engagement with tweets or Facebook Live videos have been taken into account. The result is that Trump has overtaken the engagement numbers of Barack Obama's peak in 2008 – the year he came into power – by 25 percent.

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

[NightTrain]

That will be very interesting if it's right - and I sure hope it is.

However, I can't see AI understanding sarcasm or humor as it scans social media.

[jimnyc]

That will be very interesting if it's right - and I sure hope it is.

However, I can't see AI understanding sarcasm or humor as it scans social media.

I'd bet my last donut that it could read things by, say Pete, and Gabby, bully, and maybe a few others, and know that it means "stupid".