# Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos | Quanta Magazine https://blog.cynexia.com/machine-learnings-amazing-ability-to-predict-chaos-quanta-magazine Author: [Rob Aleck](https://blog.cynexia.com/pages/about) · https://github.com/mnbf9rca · https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaleck/ · https://family-foqos.app/ Published: 2018-05-07 Categories: LinkedIn cross-post Why is weather unpredictable? The natural world is governed by thousands of factors, and their relationships are intrinsically chaotic, making them hard to model and so to predict - at least for humans. In most systems the number of variables is so massive that even identifying them is impossible - think about the flickering of the flames of a large bonfire, or how topography affects weather formations. Researchers at the University of Maryland have proven that they can train a machine learning model on the existing time-series data, and the model was able to predict future states approximately 8 times further to the future than a human. [https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learnings-amazing-ability-to-predict-chaos-20180418/]()In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.