After watching the giggle video, check out “The Circle” (2017).
If we’ve landed in a dystopian realm of 24/7 surveillance by mega corporations, it was VOLUNTARY. Every tweet, facebook post, ‘gram,’ “hey siri/google/baxter/bixby/alexa/audio-avatar-of-choice, facetime, amazon, alibaba, ebay, retailer contact, etc. is STORED. IT IS ALL STORED. Storage is dirt cheap and blindingly fast right at this very moment. And it is linked to you personally by, among other things, advertiser ID, phone number, ISP, ESN, and a host of other markers. The largest issue with AI is not “robot overlords” but the ability to peruse, quickly, the massive amount of data which exist on each and every person.
Google may very well decide the next election by no other method than controlling the reporting.
The future is not what we’d hoped for but likely what we asked for.
KYPD
George Orwell barely scratched the surface.
I’ve watched “The Circle”. I think it’s an important movie to see so that people understand how the tech giants like Google and Facebook have sooo much information on each one of us, and how much they do control. Time to break them up.
Actually, that's one in the same problem. If your interested, start with trying to figure out the real reason behind why its important for computers to learn to dream. Find out what alphago, deepmind, and deeploco are. "Who" is Eugene Goostman?
Through movies society has been taught to imagine and possibly fear ranks of metal soldiers or to imagine that the danger is from something like a T800 or T1000 hunting them down personally. That does seem far fetched and easy to mock. The threat isn't really from the humanoid form in metalline, its from the mind behind those fictions, the computer on the mothership or from "Skynet".
A computer teaching itself chess is impressive but it only goes so far. Chess or any other game has set rules and "the best move" is only a matter of analyzing possibilities against that set of rules. In the real world there really are no rules that an independent mind must follow.
Many people are concerned about their privacy as an individual vs the deep state but the deep state no longer cares about you. Not as in "not interested in your well being", that you've already known for a long time, more as in "you are no longer relevant". At this point your only value is knowledge and possibly more importantly your experience.