Key Points
While almost all of them moved as advised, the captain of barge P-305 chose to move just 200 metres away from its initial location..
The captain who trusted his intuition more than the warnings of machines lost his life along with 75 other people abroad the barge..
Given the huge improvements made in the availability of data and its analytics, increasing computational power and recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), machines are often in a far better position than humans to analyse past data and arrive at accurate forecasts..
Machines are still not perfect, but in many ways and fields, they will continue to be better than humans in predicting future events..
Attempts to anthropomorphize our interactions with machines as much as possible should get a further boost with recent developments in multi-modal technology..
