I remember back when I was in 8th grade, and we were talking about the government wanting to put up cameras everywhere, you know to keep track of crimes and such. Most of us thought that was an invasion of privacy, the reality is that these cameras are in our pockets instead. Im sure that someone that is smarter than what I am with computes could see all my snapchats to my fiends, have my fingerprint at their disposal from my phones ID scanner, or all my bank information because my login is saved in the app. All things that I consider private.
We are always talking about the internet invading our privacy, but we let it. We want everything at our fingertips, and having the luxury of google knowing what we are looking for when we search something is not something we complain about in the moment.
Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, is currently helping the project of Al, much like the concept of Jarvis is Ironman. Artificial intelligence that is supposed recognize your voice and face, so you can control your house by just talking, or the doors will open as your approach. When they figure out how to teach it unsupervised(something that apparently is far ways away) and supervised learning it can detect diseases like cancer, or drive you around in your car , or even help us discover our universe. WOW, this sounds amazing, right? But this is using the same technology as the voice recognition on our phones, and the pattern recognition algorithms in Google and Facebook.
We argue back and forth whether society is pushing technology or technology is pushing society. To me it does not matter, because we all go with the flow regardless of what our real feelings towards this technology is. Personally, it does frighten me. I´ve watched too many post-apocalyptic movies where the big boom is from artificial intelligence is becoming a little too intelligent, but like everyone else I'm not doing anything about it.
I'm not suggesting a solution on how to either get over my fear, or stop the development of artificial intelligence, but I am saying that I have signed away my rights to complain about invasion of privacy when I encourage these corporations by buying and using their products.
Andrea,
SvarSlettI agree with you and how we as consumers encourage these companies to create products and devices that keep pushing the boundaries of our laziness (practically). Everyone wants the easiest and quickest way of doing something even it is costs an arm and a leg. Take for example, hover boards. Walking and exercise I feel is non-existent for today's kids, but the convenience is what makes companies inventing more products to enhance our laziness.
I too have signed my privacy rights away. Our technology as we know it holds our lives and if we lose sight of it for on second, our privacy is out the window. We've become too attached to technology, in particular social media apps, that we don't know any other way to keep our privacy because we've already given it up. Our personal information, phone numbers and direct locations are encouraged to create your profile and we are smart enough to post everything about ourselves. Is it our fault or technology's fault for making us so willing to create and share?