"Computers have long been used to make forecasts in narrow fields, such as the weather. But AI forecasters, like those on Metaculus, are a different breed. Instead of being trained specifically on data regarding the questions they are predicting the answers to, they are built using the same large language models (LLMs) that underpin the rest of the AI boom." And congratulations for the top-performing human forecaster, @BenShindel! See the full Summer Metaculus Cup leaderboard here: metaculus.com/tournament/met… Read the full piece here: economist.com/science-and-te…