Off the top of my head,
There was recorded future
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/
Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
THE INVESTMENT ARMS of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”
The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.
“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science.
Facebook Building 8
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-f8-building-8-moonshot-projects-zuckerberg-regina-dugan/
Since then, Facebook has given tantalizing hints about Building 8’s mission, saying only that it’s focused on “seemingly impossible” hardware in augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, connectivity and “other important breakthrough areas,” with “clear objectives for shipping products at scale.” The one thing we knew for sure: The company had been amassing a dream team of hardware veterans from the likes of Apple, Motorola, Google and other industry heavyweights.
Some of that secrecy faded Wednesday, when the group unveiled its first two projects: a “brain-to-computer interface” that would allow us to send thoughts straight to a computer, and technology to “hear” or absorb language through vibrations on our skin.
Project Deepdream
Algorithms of Dreaming: Google and the “Deep Dream” Project
A new computer program helps map the spontaneous visual creativity of dreaming
Researchers at Google have been developing a computer software program that may shed new light on certain aspects of dream formation. Titled “Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks, (link is external)” the Google project involves the clever use of computer networks designed to recognize images. The engineers created a program that could “learn” how to identify various kinds of images with increasingly greater precision and accuracy. Through millions of trial-and-error attempts, the program developed the ability to determine which features of each image are most likely to represent a particular object.
Facebook AI
FACEBOOK is using artificial intelligence to automatically flag offensive material in live video streams.
The social network has been embroiled in a number of content controversies this year, facing international outcry after removing an iconic Vietnam War photo due to nudity and allowing the spread of fake news on its site.
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Welcome to Thursday’s new Q Anon thread (link below). Note that I gave the new thread the wrong date (4/10/2018) and have asked the Admin to correct it for us. Sorry for the confusion. The graphic on the new thread is a DEFCON Q card:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3647135/posts
Exactly. thanks