UPDATE: This was our little April Fools prank we posted on April 1st, no hoax predicting AI-bots just yet 🙂
A UK based tech firm has created an AI-program that can actually predict new Internet hoaxes before they have even been created, as well as catalogue them in a publicly accessible database.
Forget Go-playing AI bots beating world champions – H.A.F.D. technologies, based just outside London, has this week purported their latest AI program – using a “combination of deep-reinforcement heuristic algorithms and an extensive database of previous online urban legends” – can predict exactly what Internet hoaxes and rumours will spread across social media up to weeks before they have even been authored by their respective hoaxers.
Head of innovation for HAFD, Jerome Bustyfield told us…
“Our technology has evaluated the propagation of online falsehoods that have spread primarily through social media channels over the last number of years, and what we discovered was very exciting.”
“There is actually a science behind Internet hoaxes. Whether it’s politically-themed rumours, regurgitated social media warnings about hackers or viruses, or nonsense claiming something has been banned because it offends people. We have finally found the science behind them, and because of that we have found we can now predict new rumours weeks before they even appear online. Before they even exist in someones head.”
The firm has reported that during testing in the latter part of 2015, their AI-bot had predicted the presence of an exceptional 93% of Internet hoaxes that they had gathered.
We hope by 2017, we will be able to predict the forthcoming presence of over 99% of online nonsense, before the hoaxer has even dreamt it up.
It’s like the Minority Report, only with Internet hoaxes.
Users can currently search for hoaxes that will spread next month.
It has also been reported that by 2017, the program will become an online service that the public can access in order to see what hoaxes to expect in the upcoming weeks, as to pre-emptively dismiss them before they manage to gain viral traction.
The firm have already announced plans to expand. Using the same innovative technology, the company will soon be able to predict the social media updates of any individual based on their social media history.
Whether it’s images of your next meal or a post-gym status report, by 2020 our technology will know exactly what you’ll post and when you’ll post it … before you do.
Some exciting times lay ahead…
… but on an entirely separate note… Happy April Fool’s Day!
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