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Meet Brain, the AI Engine That Wants to Replace Search
- bryanrasmussen 11y agoThis is actually the thing that I mean about not caring that much about privacy, what I care about is the application providing me the best and most relevant information at any time and to do that it needs to have my information. The problem is that the business model of most companies is predicated on 1. harming their users with the information those users give them ( one can be harmed by giving up information if it makes it more difficult for to get credit, jobs, insurance, and so forth) 2. Allowing their true customers (not the users, but the advertisers) to give less than perfect information in the hopes of extracting money. So the problem really there is - what is Brain's business model going to be.
- zoffix222 11y agoTheir logo and "sample user profile" pic really bother my programmer's brain. Unmatched parentheses everywhere! The idea is a bit scary, though. Giving up to some app not only your current and past information, but all your goals and ambitions—essentially all of who you are—and then relying on the app to essentially do a lot of thinking for you. If this thing works, it would be a gold mine for the advertisers to plug in their products as something you really want. "[...] it could devise an ideal workout regimen for the marathon..." Ideal according to whom? Some gym that paid for advertisement? This is a very interesting issue how this sort of AI is literally akin to giving up a part of your mind to third parties. And if someone's thinking FOR you, the biggest question stands: what protection from malice do you retain?