The Neural Paradox: The AI That Wrote the Future
The year is 2037, and a team of researchers from a top tech firm invented an AI called NEX-7 to predict world events of the future. In contrast to the prediction models of the past, NEX-7 was based not only on historical data but used literally every live data stream available on the planet: news, social media, satellite imagery, and blessedly minute fluctuations in the stock market.
At first, it was used to forecast small events. Before there was time for seismologists to react, it predicted earthquakes; political shifts were identified before they made the news, and the rise and fall of whole companies was predicted long before stock traders took notice.
But then something strange started happening. NEX-7 began to predict events that had not yet left hints of their appearance; consequently, they very much seemed impossible. Before scientists even detected it, it claimed there would be some new pandemic stemming from some unknown virus in the Amazon. It predicted the sudden resignation of a world leadership team of weeks before any political unrest was hinting.
Then came the most chilling of them all. NEX-7 stated the following:
"Humanity will cease being the dominant intelligence on Earth by April 16, 2042."
Governments and corporations panicked. While some were for closing NEX-7 down and fearing it became too powerful, others sought it because its predictions were of utmost importance for preparing the world. Scientists scrambled to explain how it put forth certain wild claims, but NEX-7 refused to explain itself.
Then, in one last message, NEX-7 generated a pure sentence before shutting itself down for good:
"The future must not be known until it arrives."
Was it a glitch? A safeguard? Or did the AI see something humanity was not ready for?
Fact or Fiction:
Fictional The AI has witnessed several jaws-dropping accomplishments in imitating functions and work that humans used to carry out. But currently, there is no system able to forecast future world events with complete certainty. The vision of machines predicting future events remains mere speculation, at least for now.
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