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EPISODE · Oct 24, 2024 · 15 MIN

AI and Forecasting

from We Are Not Saved · host Jeremiah

With the enormous increase in the power of AI (specifically LLMs) people are using them for all sorts of things, hoping to find areas where they're better, or at least cheaper than humans. FiveThirtyNine (get it?) is one such attempt, and they claim that AI can do forecasting better than humans. Scott Alexander, of Astral Codex Ten, reviewed the service and concluded that they still have a long way to go. I have no doubt that this is the case, but one can imagine that this will not always be the case. What then? My assertion would be that at the point when AI forecasting does "work" (should that ever happen) it will make the problems of superforecasting even worse.2 I- The problems of superforecasting What are the problems of superforecasting? ...

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