Cell Phone Data Predicts Movement Patterns

azoblue writes "In a study published in Science, researchers examined customer location data culled from cellular service providers. By looking at how customers moved around, the authors of the study found that it may be possible to predict human movement patterns and location up to 93 percent of the time."

Comments

Uh huh...

[spiffmastercow]

So you're saying that analyzing movement patterns allows you to predict movement patterns. Would you like to guess the color of my red car?

upper bound

[dario_moreno]

This seems to be the upper bound of predictability by computers ; in other domains of artificial intelligence, such as automatic translation or speech recognition, automated statistical analysis from corpuses seems to perform better than manual encoding of rules, but ends up at maybe 90% efficiency. The rest is too random to be predicted, and it could be the part of poetry, art or intelligence in our lives.