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I often joke that I'll believe "The machines are taking over" immediately after I get a relevant ad on Facebook. Of all places - they should know exactly what I
by chadgeidel 10y ago
I often joke that I'll believe "The machines are taking over" immediately after I get a relevant ad on Facebook. Of all places - they should know exactly what I like and what I would buy. They haven't got a clue.
- ojbyrne 10y agoI just finished "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" and there is a discussion about this in there. Turns out its very hard to get from "what you like" to "what I want to buy." Google actually has an advantage here, in that it is easier to identify search phrases that are part of the pre-buying process.
- chadgeidel 10y agoI'm not disagreeing with you, but it's even harder to get to "machines are taking over" from "here's a bunch of networked processors". :-D Thanks for the book recommendation - I'll have to read that!