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Scary? I think that's pretty cool actually. The more ways we have to implicitly correlate/extract data using these techniques, the more accurate model of the w
by miguelrochefort 8y ago
Scary? I think that's pretty cool actually.
The more ways we have to implicitly correlate/extract data using these techniques, the more accurate model of the world we can build.
It reminds me of this pretty cool research about extracting audio from silent videos:
http://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804 http://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibr...
- a-dub 8y agoThe technology is super cool. As is the stuff where they can reconstruct audio from a video of a potato chip bag that was in the room. Fast computers, DSP, effective pattern matching and reconstruction... some of the most fascinating stuff out there. Where it gets scary, I guess, is where it upends the standard norms and expectations of privacy. As the tools proliferate, forensic reconstruction type analysis becomes available to almost everyone, which totally opens the doors for new levels of creepiness from all sorts of actors...
- brokenmachine 8y agoThe scariest part for me is how it keeps getting cheaper, so mass-surveillance is now possible to do economically at an unprecedented scale. It's awesome power to wield, and I'm not sure any government or company can be trusted with such power. Also drone swarms. They scare the shit out of me for the same reason.