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Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by gravypod on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:07PM (#12686270)
I'd parse all of the data from political discussion sites (like geopolitical commentary) and attempt to find a correlation between that, news articles, public speeches, and stock data to see if I can predict anything about geopolitical stability.

If I can say predict with a 30-40% accuracy things like riots in 3rd world nations based on collective analysis of data provided from thousands of sources (just by looking at places and sentiment), broken up by groups and affiliations, and correlated an analysis of a country's monetary and political situations then I could probably sell it for a nice chunk of change.

Lots of work, but probably huge pay off. Then again I'm not a "Data scientist" so I'll leave this up to those experts.

PS: you could definitely use this + gender detection for finding information about products and services and correlate that to corporate success of advertisements. Technology like this is applicable to many industries. Just looking for different correlations of the same sets of data.

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Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by macns on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:02PM (#12689222)
Somehow this reminded me of "psychohistory" in Isaac Asimov's Foundation:

Science fiction author and scientist/science writer Isaac Asimov popularized the term in his famous Foundation series of novels, though in his works the term psychohistory is used fictionally for a mathematical discipline that can be used to predict the general course of future history.

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Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by netsharc on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @09:00AM (#12692366)
This was a story a few days ago: http://sociable.co/technology/cia-siren-servers-social-upris...

If you have data like payroll and bank account info (so, state-level hacking), it'd be interesting to see how economic pressures turn to uprisings. CIA/NSA probably has access to logs of all the world's telecom companies, I wonder if they can see trends of how e.g. riots grow organically (many mobile phones registering at particular antenna = huge crowd = riot (or a concert, or a football game...)), and to see who the instigators are.

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