Winnow AI Blog Why can't AI predict the World Series?

With ChatGPT, AI has officially arrived. It was a buzzword before, now it's an everyday, in-your-face, job-changing reality that is impossible to ignore. We've come to a point, in fact, where the faceless robot overlords who rule our lives seem omnipotent. So people are starting to think that the machine learning and predictive analytics of AI can tackle any mystery.Like identifying which team will win the World Series. Right?Unfortunately for every sports bettor in Vegas, AI isn't reliable when it comes to those kinds of predictions. (Cue sad trombone.)Why not?Many people think of AI as a panacea, a point-and-shoot solution to every question. And indeed, AI can unlock a tremendous amount of information that helps us make sense of our world. But when it comes to making sense of the World Series, AI is as clueless as the rest of us.Because baseball - like most sports - is a stochastic process. And AI isn't competent at understanding random patterns.