It is called the “Sentient World Simulation.” The program’s aim, according to its creator, is to be a “continuously running, continually updated mirror model of the real world that can be used to predict and evaluate future events and courses of action.” In practical terms that equates to a computer simulation of the planet complete with billions of “nodes” representing every person on the earth.
The project is based out of Purdue University in Indiana at the Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations Laboaratory. It is led by Alok Chaturvedi, who in addition to heading up the Purdue lab also makes the project commercially available via his private company, Simulex, Inc. which boasts an array of government clients, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice, as well as private sector clients like Eli Lilly and Lockheed Martin.
Chatruvedi’s ambition is to create reliable forecasts of future world events based on imagined scenarios. In order to do this, the simulations “gobble up breaking news, census data, economic indicators, and climactic events in the real world, along with proprietary information such as military intelligence.” Although not explicitly stated, the very type of data on digital communications and transactions now being gobbled up by the NSA, DHS and other government agencies make ideal data for creating reliable models of every individuals’ habits, preferences and behaviors that could be used to fine-tune these simulations and give more reliable results
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/researchers-shocking-discovery-social-media-posts-can-be-used-to-predict-riots-revolutions-and-even-the-weather_06272017
Absolutely no way this could go wrong.
>>152959
Dude... weren't you aware? We *are* the simulation. The real world is out there, somewhere, beyond the code.
It's not a very good one, though. Or did you think that people would REALLY act like they do around here?
Same predictions like hillarys 99% chance to win?
>>152959
>"predict"
I wouldn't call AIs aggregating everyone's private messages a prediction.
Do ppl really not have fucking common sense anymore?