There are a variety of traits in humans that make them human. While science is progressing and technology is being developed to capture and adapt human traits, we are yet to figure out various mysteries of the human brain. Predicting someone's behaviour based on their actions is perhaps one of the most human things that can be witnessed. In a recent study, researchers from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science may have unveiled AI technology that can help predict human behaviour. The study is called "Learning the Predictability of the Future" and was presented at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition that took place from 15 - June to 25 June 2021.

Conceived in 2012, Polly is ASI's artificial intelligence that predicts human behaviour in many different instances. "Polly is artificial intelligence and what she does is, in this case, goes out to all the ridings in Ontario and creates representative samples of each of those ridings so that she can accurately gauge the sentiment of that population and figure out who is likely to win the election," said CEO of Advanced Symbolics, Erin Kelly, about their AI -- named Polly -- that's currently being used to predict who is most likely to win the Ontario election. Polly has also been working and analyzing over the course of the year, determining how people's minds -- and votes -- change when certain things happen. This technology, as Kelly said in this interview with Steve Paikin of The Agenda, is pulling from a much larger sample size (ridings and the popular vote) than a typical poll. ICYMI: NDP momentum continues in Ontario election campaign ASI has published Polly's methodology, which details how the AI operates.

Artificial Intelligence has become a household word. It has also become a manipulator of all households. The unchecked explosion in AI across all businesses and business models has been a phenomenal driver of growth, but it raises questions that need to be answered. Data Scientists and AI Researchers will increasingly drive human behaviour, impact how businesses make decisions, and even steer government. Furthermore, those models will increasingly move from traditional human-understandable designs to complex Deep-Learning models that involve an incredible amount of complexity.

It sounds like the premise of a science fiction movie, but researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are teaching computers to see into the future. They've created an algorithm that can forecast hugs, kisses, and high-fives -- before they even happen. CBC Radio technology columnist Dan Misener explains how computers are getting better and better at understanding and anticipating human behaviour. They've developed an algorithm that can look at a photo of two people and predict what's going to happen next. For instance, if I showed this software a photo of you and me meeting on the street, it can anticipate whether we're likely to hug, kiss, shake hands or high-five.

Is it possible to predict whether someone will commit a crime some time in the future? It sounds like an idea from the 2002 science-fiction movie Minority Report. But that's what statistical researcher Richard Berk, from the University of Pennsylvania, hopes to find out from work he's carried out this year in Norway. Is it possible to predict whether someone will commit a crime some time in the future? It sounds like an idea from the 2002 science-fiction movie Minority Report (pictured).