Our tech companies are creating supersystems... if they don’t build protections into them the Russians et al will have even stronger tools to use against us.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-hardware-plan-trojan-horse-2017-10
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Google clearly sees Assistant — and artificial intelligence more generally — as its next big foundational technology, one that could soon rank up there with its search technology and Android. And reading between the lines of the press event, it seems clear that Google sees its hardware effort as a kind of Trojan Horse for its AI efforts, a way to sneak its assistant and its AI into consumers’ homes and lives.
For all the talk in the tech industry about the new computing devices that could replace the smartphone, such as augmented reality goggles and smartwatches, the software underlying those devices will likely be more important than the gadgets themselves.