Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

> a new feature called Goals that uses machine learning to help you figure out when you have time to pencil in stuff like spending time with your family or exercise.

Spending time with your family is a goal/something you need help finding the time for?

What the fuck Google? How busy do you think the average person is?

Is this the Timeful acquisition playing out? http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/google-acquires-timeful-to-...

Spending time with family and exercise are definitely huge goals for me that I frequently feel like I've failed at.

I can't help but wonder what will come out of all of these attempts to feed million's people's data (they'll spy on everyone, but that seems inevitable in this age) to some kind of machine learning contraption.

I have strong feeling that if there comes a revolution in AI, google will be leading it with their unprecedented access to human behavior.

In that perspective, feeding data to google seems more profitable for us as humans than feeding it to some state's agency furthering their own goals. Not that I'm advising for enabling every user-tracking option out there, but still.

I'll definitely try that out, though it is in conflict with the GTD method I'm currently practicing. In GTD, only things that HAVE to be done on a certain day or time, go in the calendar. Because else you will be constantly re-scheduling and reprioritizing.

If Google gets it right though, and your goals are perfectly prioritized, AND the algorithm makes use of contexts (e.g. I cannot fulfill goal "spend time with family" when I'm not home), then this might actually work for me. Not sure though whether I want a machine telling me what to do right now :)