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Podcast: thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future
Episode: 872 Predicting the Unpredictable: The Myth of Future-Casting with Data
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Today we're diving into the mind-bending world of predicting the future, thanks to a group of NYU students and their project LLM Time. It's all about the elusive chase to forecast what's next using vast amounts of past data. But here's the catch: Can we truly predict the future with any degree of accuracy?
I've dabbled in time series data myself and I've got to say, it's like trying to nail jelly to the wall. No matter how much we know about the past, prediction models keep us...