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A.I. accurately predicted the full baseball post-season back in July

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Re: A.I. accurately predicted the full baseball post-season back in July

#7
Not to be overly critical but:

It does not match my definition of A.I:

"UNU enables groups of online users to think together as a unified emergent intelligence -- a "brain of brains" that can express itself as a singular entity. Touted to as the world's first "hive mind," the UNU platform has had over 60,000 human participants in swarming sessions this year, together answering over 250,000 questions."

Also I would reasonably expect some of those 250.000 questions to beat the odds and get answered right.

Re: A.I. accurately predicted the full baseball post-season back in July

#10
Nothing about this seems to add up.

They claim they made the prediction in early July, but link to a newspaper article dated 4 August that indicates the predictions were made just one day earlier.

They picked the team with the best record all season long to win the championship. They got one of the division winners wrong.

Just publishing the current favorites from MLB.com's probability page [0] as of 3 August would have also gotten 9 of 10 postseason teams correct, including going 6/6 on division winners. So the 'knowledge' of fans voting actually did worse than a monte carlo simulation.

I'm not impressed.

There's no way this should be considered predicting the "full baseball post-season," and I am not seeing any evidence that it happened in July. Wish they'd have shared it.

[0] http://mlb.com/mlb/standings/probability.jsp?ymd=20161002

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