What would a marriage of AI and Astrology come up with..?
Example:
1. astronomy says Jupiter, Saturn and mercury will be in the constellation of Sagittarius on Christmas Day.
2. Vedic astrology marks dec 25th as a day when a cluster forms in the house of Sagittarius with 6 celestial bodies(three planets, sun, moon and Ketu, the imaginary south node of moon).
I don’t know astrology and so I don’t know what it means. And let’s assume that it is significant for some world event.
A rational non believer would say that any events on that day is common place and a coincidence.
But can AI map ‘coincidences’ to come up with a pattern? If it does, would it be able to transform a pseudo science into a valid science.
In other words, what’s the difference between pattern recognition and prediction by AI vs pattern recognition and prediction by old world knowledge?
and you said it - it's a pseudo science... so why, even?
If you hadn't said 'pseudo science', I'd have assumed you're a believer and that the question was in earnest.
OTOH - you do end with 'old world knowledge' so I'm not sure anymore.
but you're not asking that...I suppose what you're asking is akin to training an AI on two unrelated datasets and asking it to predict one based on other... sure - it's going to spit out some 'pattern recognition' where none exists. Basically, AI (or anything else) can't manufacture causality.