i think people need to get a grip on what predictive AI is, it's not just magic mirror on the wall it's literally just crunching statistics and variables and predicting most likely outcomes.
a predictive AI could calculate all the variables on the pool table in it's current state, then project forward to the best solution with the highest probability for winning the game.
but that doesn't work 5 years out... it can't predict how good or bad i will shoot pool 5 years from now... even knowing the opponent and date/time/location, etc... for all it knows it will predict i win but along the way i lose my vision and both hands in a lightning strike.
it's not magic, it's probabilities... it's war gaming.
even a sentient AI allowed to run free and given enough computational power... it can do some amazing (and truly horrifying) things... but it's never going to be able to predict the day and time of the queen's death and burial services 5 years in advance.
i keep circling around it because it's just crazy talk... but the only possibility is some sort of time travel or at the very least finding ways to send data streams back in time. to send warnings.
assume we will one day invent that, the records we are creating right now will presumably live on forever. a future person could look up "when did the queen die, when was the queen buried" and then fire up their "post shit to 2018 8chan" machine and start shit posting.
as insane as that sounds it's the only thing that makes sense at this point, there are far too many "coincidences".
i think people need to get a grip on what predictive AI is, it's not just magic mirror on the wall it's literally just crunching statistics and variables and predicting most likely outcomes.
a predictive AI could calculate all the variables on the pool table in it's current state, then project forward to the best solution with the highest probability for winning the game.
but that doesn't work 5 years out... it can't predict how good or bad i will shoot pool 5 years from now... even knowing the opponent and date/time/location, etc... for all it knows it will predict i win but along the way i lose my vision and both hands in a lightning strike.
it's not magic, it's probabilities... it's war gaming.
even a sentient AI allowed to run free and given enough computational power... it can do some amazing (and truly horrifying) things... but it's never going to be able to predict the day and time of the queen's death and burial services 5 years in advance