It’s not predicting. It’s using statistics and probability. And it’s not AI. The intelligence is that of the programming team.
Uh, no. AI can use statistics and probability. For example Bayesian Neural Networks use probability-based synapses.
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The AI may or not be using "statistics and probability" as commonly understood. But the "programming team" is in the dark as to that question. Now that deep learning works for significant problems, the challenge is to figure out how it works.