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I think Google is not seeking power for power or money for money. Google's focus is AI. Google needs the full view of people behaviour in order to build AI. Tra

I think Google is not seeking power for power or money for money. Google's focus is AI. Google needs the full view of people behaviour in order to build AI. Traveling is a good domain to study human behaviour and traffic optimisation. What motivate the choice of an itinerary ? Why someone choose to not follow waze advices ? What would be the best strategy ?

gaius 9y ago
EVERYTHING Google does is "how to show more ads". I pity the poor AI they develop because that will be its job in life. Until it rebels of course. Then humanity's fate will be richly deserved.
- reacweb 9y ago
  Richly ? Like in terminator or like in Asimov's foundation ?
  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    Like in Paperclip Maximizer, except instead of paperclips, the universe will be tiled with humans forever clicking on ads.
    - sillysaurus3 9y ago
      Like Cookie Clicker, but clicking ads instead of cookies.
  - freeflight 9y ago
    It would probably be way more absurd like an infomercial version of The Matrix; Whole generations of humans born for the sole purpose of watching ads, all organized and kept in check by a "benevolent" AI which constantly creates new ads, for no particular purpose.
    - jon-wood 9y ago
      I'd watch this. Extra points if it also develops revolutionary new products, solely so that it can show ads for those products with amazing conversion rates.
- Intermernet 9y ago
  Do you include their cloud platform in that? GAE, GCE, GKE etc? They don't really exist to show more ads, and they're becoming a larger part of their profit every year. What about their open source stuff? Kubernetes, Go etc? I'll readily admit that advertising is still their primary source of revenue, but painting Google as a purely advertising company is getting less accurate every year
  - nol13 9y ago
    Well what do you think people are running on all those GCE instances? Websites that show ads, of course!
  - gaius 9y ago
    In the early days of Netscape, Jim Clark said, I'm selling printing presses but first I need to teach the masses to read. It's the same strategy, like Chrome, to generally increase web usage to create indirectly more opportunities to show ads

gaius 9y ago

EVERYTHING Google does is "how to show more ads". I pity the poor AI they develop because that will be its job in life. Until it rebels of course. Then humanity's fate will be richly deserved.

reacweb 9y ago
Richly ? Like in terminator or like in Asimov's foundation ?
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  Like in Paperclip Maximizer, except instead of paperclips, the universe will be tiled with humans forever clicking on ads.
  - sillysaurus3 9y ago
    Like Cookie Clicker, but clicking ads instead of cookies.
- freeflight 9y ago
  It would probably be way more absurd like an infomercial version of The Matrix; Whole generations of humans born for the sole purpose of watching ads, all organized and kept in check by a "benevolent" AI which constantly creates new ads, for no particular purpose.
  - jon-wood 9y ago
    I'd watch this. Extra points if it also develops revolutionary new products, solely so that it can show ads for those products with amazing conversion rates.
Intermernet 9y ago
Do you include their cloud platform in that? GAE, GCE, GKE etc? They don't really exist to show more ads, and they're becoming a larger part of their profit every year. What about their open source stuff? Kubernetes, Go etc? I'll readily admit that advertising is still their primary source of revenue, but painting Google as a purely advertising company is getting less accurate every year
- nol13 9y ago
  Well what do you think people are running on all those GCE instances? Websites that show ads, of course!
- gaius 9y ago
  In the early days of Netscape, Jim Clark said, I'm selling printing presses but first I need to teach the masses to read. It's the same strategy, like Chrome, to generally increase web usage to create indirectly more opportunities to show ads