reply to post by Iamonlyhuman
OMG stop it with the web bots. I am a programmer and a computerwiz. I know many here on ATS well some are computerwizes and some are programmers. If
your not a computerwiz or a programmer then google define webbot.
WebBots are what google and many search engines use you can call them webbots or spiderbots. What the search engine does is grab data from the
Internet.
This program that predicts future events is nothing but a stats math program that grabs information in this case it's whats people is posting on the
internet. They then use stat math formula to predict that is the probability of this even happening then based on what the programmer want they will
allot anything that has a 50 or above percentage chance of it being real or the even may come true.
It's like for example if someone says I am going to hit you with the bat Many times. You lol and say do come on do it.
Now you will try and figure out what the odds are for him to hit you with the bat.
Well the more times he keeps saying he will hit you with the bat the higher chances he might just hit you with a bat.
That is what math states. In this case the math in the webbot states that if Topic A is discuessed 500,000 times on the internet then it has a high
probability of it of being true.
The web bot is doing nothing but making guess from what is posted on the internet.
Now I say we as humans have a better guess then this web bot the reason is that We logically know when their is any misinformation or lies being
spread on the internet. We know not all website sources are good to put in a research report.
So we do a better job at filtering information from the internet then a computer. This webbot will grab every topic and find out how hot the topic is
meaning how many people keep talking about this topic. Then this webbots makes it predictions based on how hot the topics are.
This what a web bot can do. Web bot or spiderbot job is to search the internet for information that we the people post on the internet. I then feeds
this data threw math formulas to figure out the possibility of such a event that might happen.
It shows if you still follow what this webbot is saying then your intelligence is lower then a computer because you need a computer to give you
information and make the decisions for you. The maker of the software of the website just wanted publicity.
He wanted to create a hype so he can get more funds from investors or governmetn grands to help his research.
Talk to Any programmers or a computer science major and they will say the same thing I told you. The webbot can't do a good job at prediction future
events. It just makes a mathematical guess.