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Podcast: thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future
Episode: 1104 Can AI Predict the Future? Dan Schwarz on Forecasting, GPT, and the Next Decade of AI
Description: Connect with Dan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-schwarz-3805b854/Read More: https;//thinkfuture.substack.com---In this episode of thinkfuture, host Chris Kalaboukis speaks with Dan Schwarz, CEO and co-founder of FutureSearch, an AI startup on a mission to push the boundaries of forecasting. With a background as a software engineer at Google and CTO of Metaculous, Dan brings deep expertise at the intersection of technology, prediction, and decision-making.Can AI really predict the future? Dan says—yes, but with caveats. He shares FutureSearch’s research into the forecasting abilities of AI models like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, revealing that whil...