archive.gulfnews.com — Two computer science students from the American University in Sharjah, have used artificial intelligence to predict the outcome of the World Cup. The students fed 20 years worth of World Cup data into the computer, and found Brazil beating Italy in the final game. Statistical tests show their algorithm to be 83% accurate.
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thesolomonJun 9, 2006
Yeah... using the term "artificial intelligence" seems a bit of a stretch, if not totally inaccurate use of the term.Building models is frequently what you *do* with statistical data. If you interpret the data accurately, by following the methods taught in any number of statistics classes, you will arrive at a conclusion. In this case, it would be a prediction based upon the statistical data entered into the program. It's complicated, for certain. But it's just a fixed set of rules for how to interpret the data. The system they have designed doesn't so much "react" to the variables, as much as churns out a fixed response as designed. Feeding data into a model you've designed to achieve a predictive output isn't "intelligence," just like cranking a handle on a well to produce water.And, of course, there's nothing to say the predictions will be valid. It will predict based simply upon the rules the programmers designed. If they designed horrible rules, it will make equally as horrible predictions. Unless the machine has "learned something," and continues to adapt its rules to respond to variable input scenarios, I don't see this as anything more than focused data mining.
iair1234Jun 9, 2006
Look at this:Brazil:(2 World Cups won by)1994 + 1970 = 3964Argentina:1986 + 1978 = 3964Germany:1990 + 1974 = 3964Who won the 2002 World Cup?3964 - 2002 = (the winner of the World Cup of) 1962... BRAZIL....And... in 2006?3964 - 2006 = 1958.... and who won 1958 WC? BRAZIL!I've no studied Computing Science, I found this on a PowerPoint PPS!
subcraniumJun 9, 2006
If these guys were as smart as they think they are, they'd be at the race tracks or on Wall Street.
heddeJun 12, 2006
"11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature." - Pi <a class="user" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/</a>I think this is cool.I'm looking forward to the conclusion on this one!André HedetoftMovie-geekBlogging about things that turns geeks on atwww.oddlife.se/quest
mcoredJul 2, 2006
Okay so as Braziil is out of the game, I guess the 17% inaccuracy caused it.
billfluJul 9, 2006
Italy wins.History 1Computer 0
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