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What do they mean by "Google is reading our mail" - has Google reached sentience? Just to display it on GMail, one of Google's servers has to read the mail. If
by facepalm 13y ago
What do they mean by "Google is reading our mail" - has Google reached sentience?
Just to display it on GMail, one of Google's servers has to read the mail. If they claim that Google has achieved sentience, the implications could be very far reaching...
I mean perhaps this lawsuit will clarify when algorithms will be considered sentient.
- bowlofpetunias 13y agoIt's interesting how corporations are only people when it's convenient.
- throwaway2048 13y agothe exact same arguments could be applied to the NSA
- facepalm 13y agoExcept that the NSA doesn't have a website for checking my mail and I am not explicitly sending my mail to them.
- throwaway2048 13y agoyour post had nothing to do with that, you claimed google wasnt "reading" email because it was all automatic scripts, behind some facetious rhetoric. The situation with the NSA collecting and reading email is no different, specificly in terms of datamining the contents.
- facepalm 13y agoI wasn't claiming anything, I am asking what it is supposed to mean. It's interesting that a machine reading something can be described as the action of a juristic person. I do think the implications would be that web mail becomes impossible. What exact part of "reading" is a privacy violation?
- hamax 13y agoIf they would be an email provider, yes.
- joshuaheard 13y agoBy "reading" I think they mean analyzing the content versus merely serving up text.