"Alexa, what's the weather for today?"
That's a question about the future, but the knowledge was generated beforehand by the weather people (NOAA, weather.com, my local meteorologist, etc).
I'm sure there are more examples, but this one comes to mind immediately
There are tons of common queries about the future. Being able to handle them should be built into the AI to know that if something hasn't happened, to give other relevant details. (and yes, I agree with your Alexa speculation)
And then, perhaps, trained an AI on those responses, updating it every day. I wonder if they could train it to learn that some things (e.g. weather) change frequently, and figure stuff out from there.
It's well above my skill level to be sure, but would be interesting to see something like that (sort of a curated model, as opposed to zero-based training).
Exactly!
Which, ironically, is why I think AI would be great at it - for the simple reason that so many humans are bad at it! Think of it this way - in some respects, human brains have set a rather low bar on this aspect. Geeks, especially so (myself included). Based on that, I think AI could start out reasonably poorly, and slowly get better - it just needs some nudges along the way.