AI successfully predicts the results of the US presidential election

The MogIA artificial intelligence (AI) platform has successfully predicted its fourth US election in a row, paving the way for the potential of this new technology in the future. This election in particular tested the system's ability to predict the results of a presidential race as its prediction was the opposite of what many pre-election polls indicated, leading some to believe that it would lose its streak of successful predictions. MogIa makes its predictions by utilising 20 million data points from a number of online services including Google, Twitter and YouTube. It then analyses the data it collects related to public engagement from social media posts before making a decision as to who will win. Sanjiv Rai, the founder of the Indian startup Genic.ai that developed MogIA, explained how the system operates: "While most algorithms suffer from programmers' /developers' biases, MogIA aims at learning from her environment, developing her own rules at the policy layer and developing expert systems without discarding any data."