Can AI predict the future? | If You're Listening | ABC NEWS In-depth

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The US-Israel war with Iran. The UK leadership kerfuffle. Who’d finish the top of the ladder in the AFL. At the start of 2026 none of these things would have felt all that predictable, but as Matt experiments with AI stuck in the recent past, he finds computers have gotten good at predicting certain kinds of futures, and he investigates what that means for us, and for Donald Trump. Watch all episodes of If You're Listening in our playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDTPrMoGHssAfgMMS3L5LpLNFMNp1U_Nq&si=8PbNZ381z7UkYtUJ Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5 Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNewsIndepth #ABCNewsAustralia

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