The more I have dug into Palantir the more concerning it is. It really raised the antena that the CIA was the major funder for the startup. Thiel is basically the only major tech CEO that backed Trump.
Somebody was asking if this was using AI. I think it is probably closer to augmented intelligence along with big data. To my knowlegde, none of the players out there have reached any level of advanced AI. WATSON is played a lot more sophisticated then it really is. Don’t get me wrong, it is breaking ground but as a technology it is in its infancy. IMHO this AI genie needs to be put back in the bottle. I feel the same way about Palantir. Tyrants always use those things meant for good to enslave people.
AI genie needs to be put back in the bottle. I feel the same way about Palantir. Tyrants always use those things meant for good to enslave people.
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Once one person has an idea, eventually, it becomes reality. There is no way to stop people thinking, short of physical or chemical lobotomy.
Tyranny is just another one of those ideas. So is freedom. Tyrants hate freedom and vice versus.
If not Palantir, there would be something else. If not one tyrant, there’s always another being born. It can’t be unthought or undone, so we need to exercise constant vigilance and be prepared to resist.
Ultimately, real life could end up like ‘Person of Interest’, with two machine intelligences fighting each other.
Yeah, I’m glad we took up this Palantir scent. And enormously grateful the ‘smart’ set took these analytics too far, too fast, and lost Hillary the election with them.