Artificial Intelligence

Is human suffering totally and artificially predictable?

The answer is a resounding yes! You and I have been contributing millions of digital actions to allow the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon learn about our likes, our dislikes, our shopping behaviours, our feelings, our relationships, our networking, our friends and our enemies and much more besides.

The data is colossal and the collecting of it all has been fierce for decades, because all these companies knew that one day this data could be harvested, could be interrogated and could be used to make predictions.

Let's just imagine that apart from retargeting or remarketing a technology that has ads follow you around when you browse the internet, ads are served up to you before you even have thought of it. Sounds unbelievable, well consider this.

AI

So where am I seeing AI in my day to day dealings on the web?

Well I use LinkedIn and here is why I have experienced the most. Actually LinkedIn promised us a very long time ago that they would be introducing AI (Artificial Intelligence) in their messaging system. It’s only just being put into practice now at the kind of level I had anticipated at the start.

Obviously they needed to work on this for a while. I’m noticing that they are quite accurately suggesting ‘one tap’ responses to messages in my inbox. At first they used to have just very limited suggested responses, like ‘thanks’ and now the suggested responses are becoming far more sophisticated.

The other place where I’ve noticed AI is Facebook. Not in their messenger but in the fact that I’ve been less active there and they’ve started emailing me with a trick email, suggesting that I had been trying to log-in to their platform and they noticed ai was having problems, supplying me with a one click button to log back in.

They obviously noticed that I had not been active and they need to uphold their active users figure, so giving me a one-button login on my email means that when I click that, I get straight back in and boom I’m included in the active users figure for that day/week/month.

So now all my excitement about AI has just been delivered a terrible blow.

Keep intelligent!

Michael de Groot