Predictive intelligence to anticipate anything.

(prior.chat)

17 points | by onemarkos 3 hours ago ago

20 comments

  • Xcelerate 2 hours ago

    I asked it to predict the first 1 KB of Chaitin’s constant. It hung, froze, then said I used up my free quota. Sounds about right.

    • foobar10000 an hour ago

      Sigh... I'm willing to bet (and this is not a hard thing to bet on) that even bb(50) is independent of ZFC and similar, and Omega(1KB) is > 748 , which is at this point known to be independent of ZFC.... Please do not ask the LLM to break the universe :)

      • boothby an hour ago

        "Fuck off that's a waste of my time" is the final moat

  • humoctopus 2 hours ago

    I asked who would win the 2028 US presidential election and it said Vance at 51% likelihood.

    That's not an unreasonable prediction but it's a little bit of a cop-out, especially the 51% bit.

    • AngryData 11 minutes ago

      To me that sounds delusional, not even MAGA likes JD. Likely the it takes all the political propaganda as actual worthwhile signal data.

  • sva_ an hour ago

    You can just open a new private browser window for a new prediction. But I'm unsure about their value.

    I asked it how many predictions it'll get right by Q4 2030 and it seems fairly confident in itself:

    68% Prior averages 71% to 75% directional quarterly accuracy by 2030, matching elite human forecasting teams.

  • johnnyo 2 hours ago

    I asked a question, server hung, then told me I had no more free questions without giving me an answer.

  • raver1975 26 minutes ago

    60% of the time, it works every time.

  • stevage 2 hours ago

    There is no way to know if this has any substance behind it or not or is just some sort of marketing sign-up page

    • amelius 40 minutes ago

      Why not? There are ways to check if a coin flip is fair or not to some level of confidence. Similar principle here.

      • cortesoft 9 minutes ago

        There are assumptions you make, though, that go into calculating that level of confidence.

        One is that each coin flip has the same odds as the previous coin flip, and that assumption will continue with each flip.

        If you have no way of knowing if or when the coin is changed, you can't make conclusions about the odds.

    • wavewrangler an hour ago

      Give it a whirl. You’ll have your answer pretty quickly, or not so quickly

    • SoftTalker an hour ago

      If it did have any substance they'd connect it to Kalshi or Polymarket and start printing money.

  • layer8 2 hours ago

    > Prior helps you anticipate anything: sports, markets […]. Our goal is to create the most powerful predictive intelligence in existence.

    Assuming that it gets anywhere close to that goal, does it take into consideration the effects of its predictions on the markets and calculates a fixpoint? (Or, maybe more likely, how the resulting chaotic system will behave?)

    • ponkpanda 2 hours ago

      Obviously not.

      There is no tool that can do what this tool is claiming to do. At best, it can make reasonable inferences based on data it has available using whatever model it is using (assuming it's not a fraud) but key parts of the world are irreducibly complex. They cannot be predicted and that is without the problem of reflexivity which you correctly highlight as an issue - even for a notionally perfect prediction engine.

      Given enough compute and data, you could model every human on the planet at subatomic granularity and you'd a) be chaotically sensitive to initial conditions; b) be subject to random quantum fluctuations.

      Nice enough frontend though.

    • turzmo 2 hours ago

      I assume that will be a feature available for the higher tier subscriptions...

  • lutusp 22 minutes ago

    All such prediction engines should include an obvious warning -- "If you act on my predictions, then all bets are off." This is why stock market predictions are a waste of perfectly good paper: people try to act on the predictions.

    Jim Cramer's stock market predictions hover slightly above chance, only because of the so-called "Announcement Effect" (in other words, they aren't actually predictions). Without that, his claims would have zero predictive value.

  • chneu an hour ago

    The show Devs kind of deals with this topic.

    Tldr: dudes wife/kid die in an unpredictable accident so he builds a super computer that predicts things, and can even go back in time using probability. Interesting story.

  • pluc 2 hours ago

    how many millionaires has this generated i wonder

    this is basically technical astrology.

    • wavewrangler an hour ago

      Or is it or practically astrology, and technically numerology?