As the NSA, google, facebook, etc. collect more and more data

Actually, pic sorta related

>>17798046
Our inability to answer existential questions makes us human. Anything capable of answering these questions thus exists outside of the human perspective. So in answer to your question, OP,

BOTH

There should be an AI tasked with reading every holy text and some philosophy and shit and we'll see what kind of crazy answers it comes up with

Goggle aint AI but search engine for the world wide web data pages.

Same goes for siri.

>>17798046
predicting future trends only occurs in regards to macroscale events. there's still going to be a lot of events that are unpredictable to a high degree.

>>17798046

It would suck out all of our brain power and turn us all into bitches.

There exists a crazy man, driven by god he dedicated more then 10 years in programming his own OS. And with his own Operating System, A divine connection and some Magical Randon Numbers he is able to talk with god. (Ghost in the machine anyone)

His OS is a TEMPLE ;)

If you want to find him, you will do.

>>17798989
Not necessarily. Think about all the data out there to describe you personally. Eventually corporations will become crazy accurate at guessing what you want to buy. Obviously data doesn't exist like this for huge portions of the world that live in mud huts and shit but eventually everyone will be a part of the system

>>17798046
You silly moose. Don't you know that you can't predict the future without causing it?

The only way to program a forecasting program is to give the capacity to build probability sets. So you'll get shit like this:

"Does god exist?"
50% True
50% False