{"id":20137,"date":"2025-09-20T08:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/british-ai-startup-beats-humans-in-international-forecasting-competition\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T08:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:37:55","slug":"british-ai-startup-beats-humans-in-international-forecasting-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/british-ai-startup-beats-humans-in-international-forecasting-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ManticAI ranked eighth in the Metaculus Cup, leaving some believing bots\u2019 prediction skills could soon overtake experts<\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence system has beaten scores of forecasting enthusiasts, including several professionals, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metaculus.com\/notebooks\/39990\/winners-of-the-summer-2025-metaculus-cup\/\">contest to predict events<\/a> ranging from bust-ups between Donald Trump and Elon Musk to Kemi Badenoch being removed from the Conservative party leadership.<\/p>\n<p>A British AI startup, co-founded by a former Google DeepMind researcher, has ranked in the top 10 of an international forecasting competition, which requires entrants to forecast the likelihood of 60 events over the summer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/20\/british-ai-startup-beats-humans-in-international-forecasting-competition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b23b6af7acdbb34944ec571e381c47905a493662\/907_0_2500_2000\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=81f7b6052da2da1aee4df8c4167a713b\" title=\"British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting competition\" \/>ManticAI ranked eighth in the Metaculus Cup, leaving some believing bots\u2019 prediction skills could soon overtake experts<br \/>\nAn artificial intelligence system has beaten scores of forecasting enthusiasts, including several professionals, in a contest to predict events ranging from bust-ups between Donald Trump and Elon Musk to Kemi Badenoch being removed from the Conservative party leadership.<br \/>\nA British AI startup, co-founded by a former Google DeepMind researcher, has ranked in the top 10 of an international forecasting competition, which requires entrants to forecast the likelihood of 60 events over the summer. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ManticAI ranked eighth in the Metaculus Cup, leaving some believing bots\u2019 prediction skills could soon overtake experts An artificial intelligence system has beaten scores of forecasting enthusiasts, including several professionals, in a contest to predict events ranging from bust-ups between Donald Trump and Elon Musk to Kemi Badenoch being removed from the Conservative party leadership. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/british-ai-startup-beats-humans-in-international-forecasting-competition\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting competition<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}