Not OK, Google
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#2I will never put an always on Internet connected microphone run by an advertising company in my house. I don't care if it literally spits out cash and cures cancer.
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#3I will never put an always on Internet connected microphone run by an advertising company in my house. I don't care if it literally spits out cash and cures cancer.
What about an Android phone?
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#4What I think is interesting is that many of us nerds have probably innocuously fantasized about having a Star Trek-like AI assistant with us, but now that they're taking the first steps towards that, we're starting to realize that in order for it to do everything for us, it has to know everything about us, too.
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#5Well, they came a long way for an advertising company. Most usually die from ad-blockers, but they dodged most of these bullets it seem.
Moving to voice-to-text everything android, just seems as a logical extension to advertise/sell data even more.
Whether is ethical or legal, it doesn't seem to concern them at all when profits are in question.
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#7This is literally the perfect end-game for an advertising company: total awareness of need under the guise of 'optimization' or 'AI enhancement'. They can see what your'e searching for, where you're going, when you run out of Mayo in your GoogleFridgeAppAssistant. What better way to offer ads than EVERY time you have a want? It's an advertising utopia!
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#8Prerequisite to personal AI worth a damn is data about you worth a damn.
It'd seem windows 10 is setting Microsoft up for this. Google is following suite with its own hardware.
Central task is to infer what you want and help you achieve it, but further, your AI can ask you questions too to work out all sorts of things subtely.
i think eventually, we'll think of I personal information as a commodity or "raw material" and regulate its extraction and trade as such.
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#9What I think is interesting is that many of us nerds have probably innocuously fantasized about having a Star Trek-like AI assistant with us, but now that they're taking the first steps towards that, we're starting to realize that in order for it to do everything for us, it has to know everything about us, too.
We always assumed they wouldn't spill their beans to third parties. I guess that was assuming too much.
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#10What I think is interesting is that many of us nerds have probably innocuously fantasized about having a Star Trek-like AI assistant with us, but now that they're taking the first steps towards that, we're starting to realize that in order for it to do everything for us, it has to know everything about us, too.
I think some people would be okay with that if:
1. That information were secret (you and service/device/implant) but not a whole company and its third party interests.
2. It wasn't making money for a third party after the initial purchase price for the device, service, etc.