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Further, at a technical level, a Markov chain can hardly be described as "creepy". Sadly, a lot of folks are not impervious to marketing snake-oil, such as the
by stevewatson301 4y ago
Further, at a technical level, a Markov chain can hardly be described as "creepy". Sadly, a lot of folks are not impervious to marketing snake-oil, such as the one you pointed above.
- californical 4y agoWe’ll, it’s creepy because of where the data comes from (in gmail). It reads common patterns in email, then uses that to make predictions. The predictions aren’t creepy, but using my emails in “anonymized” training data is creepy. Note: I am a (very happy) Fastmail user, and I do not use Google at all anymore
- eterevsky 4y agoGoogle certainly doesn't use emails as training data. Source: I work for Google and know that there are strict policies regarding what can and can't be used as training data.
- blowski 4y agoI think your original should be clear that you work for Google. It may certainly affect people’s judgement of your comment.
- eterevsky 4y agoMy top comment just points out inaccurate comparisons. Also, as you can notice I'm not hiding that I work for Google, though I do consider myself just a customer in this situation.