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Trump will win the election and is more popular than Obama in 2008
2016 Oct 28, 6:24am 552 views 4 comments
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Tenpoundbass
2016 Oct 28, 6:57am
Also there are currently more people on social media than there were in the three previous presidential elections.
Not so in social media, Social media is at the lowest in 8 years.
OneTwo
2016 Oct 28, 9:07am
More popular? The article has nothing to do with popularity. It talks about engagement, and surprise, surprise, there is more engagement with social media now than there was in 2008. Amazing.
Shaman
2016 Oct 28, 9:56am
In the future, we will use AIs for almost everything. The leading entrepreneurs will be just taking an existing product and adding AI to it, or access to a cloud-based AI to make the device truly "smart."
Already the AI that runs in my iPhone maps program automatically can predict when I am leaving and where I am headed, whether to work or to drop off the kids or pick them up. It computes my best route by traffic patterns and gives me a suggested route along with an estimated drive time. I tell you what, I pay attention to that sucker! It knows when my normal route is totally fucked in the ass with bad traffic and has me go a better way.
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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.
Rai said that his AI system shows that candidate in each election who had leading engagement data ended up winning the elections.
"If Trump loses, it will defy the data trend for the first time in the last 12 years since Internet engagement began in full earnest," Rai wrote in a report sent to CNBC.
Currently most national polls put Clinton and the Democrats ahead by a strong margin. Rai said his data shows that Clinton should not get complacent.
But the entrepreneur admitted that there were limitations to the data in that sentiment around social media posts is difficult for the system to analyze. Just because somebody engages with a Trump tweet, it doesn't mean that they support him. Also there are currently more people on social media than there were in the three previous presidential elections.
"If you look at the primaries, in the primaries, there were immense amount of negative conversations that happen with regards to Trump. However, when these conversations started picking up pace, in the final days, it meant a huge game opening for Trump and he won the Primaries with a good margin," Rai told CNBC in a phone interview.
Using social media to predict outcomes of elections has become increasingly popular because of the amount of data available publically. In September, Nick Beauchamp, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, published a paper about his experiment applying AI to more than 100 million tweets in the 2012 election. He found that this closely mirrored the results seen in state-level polling.
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