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Here's why I am afraid of Google. Google could have the best intentions, but its wife NSA that Google occasionally sleeps with doesn't. Everything you say to Go
by nojvek 10y ago
Here's why I am afraid of Google. Google could have the best intentions, but its wife NSA that Google occasionally sleeps with doesn't. Everything you say to Google Home could possibly be recorded. Storage and Computing power for google is cheap. They can record everything you say in your home. Their algorithms can connect all sorts of information about you. If trump wants to create the next Muslim holocaust, Google and FB have the perfect information.
This is what Elon means when he says AI is like inviting the devil. We have this algorithm in our mushy brain. Its takes about 20 years to train and lives for about 80 years. Its communication bitrate is pretty low (mostly blabbering through mouth) and doesn't retain much information. Only patterns.
Now imagine this algorithm from the mushy brain is run on a silicon chip, with gigabit bitrate, retains almost everything indefinitely and can learn from entire history of humanity.
That algorithm would just need to deceive us until it was powerful enough to wipe us in one sweep.
Google already manipulates humans psychologically to click on their ads en-masse. Giving them more of your personal data is just feeding the devil.
- witty_username 10y agoHow does Google manipulate humans to click on their ads?
- probably_wrong 10y agoThe story of how Target discovers and targets recently pregnant women is a good example [1]. An interesting quote: “we found out that as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn’t been spied on, she’ll use the coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer for diapers and cribs. As long as we don’t spook her, it works.” There's no reason to believe Google isn't doing the same thing. And I strongly suggest reading the original article[2], if only for the first two or three paragraphs. [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/#598ee2f234c6 http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe... [2] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habit...
- witty_username 10y agoSure, the ads are targeted specifically for you, that's not manipulation, which would be misleading someone to do something. I realize there's a grey area though.