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The name of the initiative was Project Cassandra: for the next two years, university researchers would use their expertise to help the German defence ministry predict the future.
The academics weren’t AI specialists, or scientists, or political analysts. Instead, the people the colonels had sought out in a stuffy top-floor room were a small team of literary scholars led by Jürgen Wertheimer, a professor of comparative literature with wild curls and a penchant for black roll-necks.
originally posted by: Edumakated
They've been doing this for years... SciFi writers have been very adept at predicting wars and how things play out in society decades before they happen.
originally posted by: ElGoobero
originally posted by: Edumakated
They've been doing this for years... SciFi writers have been very adept at predicting wars and how things play out in society decades before they happen.
how often has the military/industrial/government group sought them out in advance?
Keep tweaking till you get promising results from the past ,then try it on the present.
I want to do them. Each and everyone.
originally posted by: RavenSpeaks
a reply to: Scrutinizing
It would probably be something like this:
Observe:
In fact with scanners and OCR you could create searchable
documents out of everything that has ever been written .
The cosmic effects that our utterances /writtings have.