Can Artificial Intelligence Predict The Next United States Presidential Election?

And a brief look at Joe Biden’s Plan For AI’s Future In America

Richmond Alake
6 min readNov 17, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence and machine learning techniques have the capabilities of analysing past data and making future predictions based on intelligence derived through historical data analysis.

AI techniques have also shown great potential in predicting consumer behaviour, based on data points such as purchase history, website visits and advert clicks.

This article will present the surface details on the potential of AI to predict the outcome of elections based on human behavioural data. There’s also an exploration into the companies developing these AI and some of their AI’s predictions on the US Presidential Election 2020.

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It’s eerie to consider that several human relationships have begun through the unseen guidance of AI algorithms.

If this sounds hard to believe, then think of individuals you’ve interacted with as a result of platforms such as Tinder, Facebook or LinkedIn.

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Richmond Alake
Richmond Alake

Written by Richmond Alake

Machine Learning Content Creator with 1M+ views— Computer Vision Engineer. Interested in gaining and sharing knowledge on Technology and Finance

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