AI IS LEARNING TO PREDICT THE FUTURE—AND BEATING HUMANS AT IT

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Metaculus is a forecasting platform that poses questions of geopolitical importance to amateur participants. Every three months, it holds a competition for predicting the future with a prize pot of about $5,000. One of the top 10 finishers in the Summer Cup was an AI developed by UK-based startup, Mantic.