So some employee can come up with a query like "filter gunfire/fireworks from iPhones" to, say for example make a location animation of where iPhones heard gunshots or fireworks either in the distance or even say an iPhone in a shooter's pocket? Those resulting maps and trends could be compiled and could be valuable in various ways. (because you can imagine far more complex queries than gunfire), and the result you get back would not only be an identifier, but countless other available information for each agent which can also be aggregated. Well it's an interesting world we live in. Amazon owns many networked security cameras across the US which are able to be searched for example license plates or facial data for a person wanted by police. Any device with a high-accuracy accelerometer as you mentioned can leak data.. which is almost every mobile phone and more. Even your car downloads your texts and histories to send off to the car manufacturer for ad parsing in some cases. I could see a possibility that someone can point a laser at your window and use AI to reconstruct what activity is going on in that room, like cooking, or conversing.. I mean... I think it promotes you to truly share every part of yourself with others instead of shutting others away. Like how some people willingly share their location on snapchat, maybe those people weren't as crazy as we thought because we all if walking past an amazon camera in a neighborhood are being tracked to some extent potentially as well, and more cases. All that being said there are ways to mitigate any particular risk by using various tech solutions, but as a society there are systemic issues at play, where some people will just want the fastest and highest value solution rather than having to follow custom steps to get there and not be able to run the latest software. There's some car insurance provider that will give you a lower rate if they can see the time series of your RPM/speed which is monitored 24/7, and they will kick you off if they see your location consistently speeds above the limit in the areas you drive through or only offer you to recur at 10x, 100x, etc your rate. There are countless examples.
One question would be whether the car insurance company would be allowed to resell your realtime rpm/speed/etc data to other providers or to a database.. Do you think most people on those kinds of plans think of such risks? Do people get burnt by them? I really don't know. These things aren't the most productive to worry about probably I'll get back to making generating function flash cards (like how in some sense 1/(1-z) = 1 + z + x^2 + z^3 + ...) However there's plenty of ways to make money in useful and mutually beneficial ways in this world, and I do still think a majority of business are leaning in that direction like feeding people, providing infrastructure and housing, driving services and so on. So don't become too sad thinking about all of these things, there's always good directions to turn still, like enjoying nature or doing something kind for others. In my opinion we should keep getting really good at various skills, because our iphones may hear us, an expert in something, discuss it for hours on end, it may know our schedule for when we work on it, and sees partial progresses and finished results, but it doesn't mean it can predict our next "new and fascinating" artistic work, for example. That is still left for us to create, and it hasn't instructed our "spies" on what it actually feels like to be able to create the experiences they are witnessing. Then again maybe they train an AI to generate works based off of ours, but still, what we make can surpass all previous information, so there's always that thing we can do (but only so often).. Anyway, thanks for the video, I'm certainly glad you pointed out that learning from accel paper!
@@snared_ I thinks it's mostly a concern of privacy, but it certainly opens the possibility for a lot of nefarious activities to be carried out across all of society (not just the US). Be that by private companies or hackers taking advantage of the technology, it seems like a horrible idea to have these little recording devices everywhere.
You can say that it's too expensive and hard to analyze it all. But there are times that I've had a conversation with somebody and then gotten an ad for something that that was the very first time that particular potential purchase had been discussed
Ah, but one of the scary things about modern life is the realisation of how predictable we are. Paul refers to a very famous example... even if he's totally messad the details up. The incident of the pregnant teen getting new mum recommendations was so long ago that the kid is probably in high school now. I don't think there was ever a law suit about it... and if there was, it certainly wouldn't still be going on now. Instead, the way I recall it, the dad went mental at the company... and then apologised when it turned out his daughter was pregnant.
So some employee can come up with a query like "filter gunfire/fireworks from iPhones" to, say for example make a location animation of where iPhones heard gunshots or fireworks either in the distance or even say an iPhone in a shooter's pocket? Those resulting maps and trends could be compiled and could be valuable in various ways. (because you can imagine far more complex queries than gunfire), and the result you get back would not only be an identifier, but countless other available information for each agent which can also be aggregated. Well it's an interesting world we live in. Amazon owns many networked security cameras across the US which are able to be searched for example license plates or facial data for a person wanted by police. Any device with a high-accuracy accelerometer as you mentioned can leak data.. which is almost every mobile phone and more. Even your car downloads your texts and histories to send off to the car manufacturer for ad parsing in some cases. I could see a possibility that someone can point a laser at your window and use AI to reconstruct what activity is going on in that room, like cooking, or conversing.. I mean... I think it promotes you to truly share every part of yourself with others instead of shutting others away. Like how some people willingly share their location on snapchat, maybe those people weren't as crazy as we thought because we all if walking past an amazon camera in a neighborhood are being tracked to some extent potentially as well, and more cases. All that being said there are ways to mitigate any particular risk by using various tech solutions, but as a society there are systemic issues at play, where some people will just want the fastest and highest value solution rather than having to follow custom steps to get there and not be able to run the latest software. There's some car insurance provider that will give you a lower rate if they can see the time series of your RPM/speed which is monitored 24/7, and they will kick you off if they see your location consistently speeds above the limit in the areas you drive through or only offer you to recur at 10x, 100x, etc your rate. There are countless examples.
One question would be whether the car insurance company would be allowed to resell your realtime rpm/speed/etc data to other providers or to a database.. Do you think most people on those kinds of plans think of such risks? Do people get burnt by them? I really don't know. These things aren't the most productive to worry about probably I'll get back to making generating function flash cards (like how in some sense 1/(1-z) = 1 + z + x^2 + z^3 + ...) However there's plenty of ways to make money in useful and mutually beneficial ways in this world, and I do still think a majority of business are leaning in that direction like feeding people, providing infrastructure and housing, driving services and so on. So don't become too sad thinking about all of these things, there's always good directions to turn still, like enjoying nature or doing something kind for others. In my opinion we should keep getting really good at various skills, because our iphones may hear us, an expert in something, discuss it for hours on end, it may know our schedule for when we work on it, and sees partial progresses and finished results, but it doesn't mean it can predict our next "new and fascinating" artistic work, for example. That is still left for us to create, and it hasn't instructed our "spies" on what it actually feels like to be able to create the experiences they are witnessing. Then again maybe they train an AI to generate works based off of ours, but still, what we make can surpass all previous information, so there's always that thing we can do (but only so often).. Anyway, thanks for the video, I'm certainly glad you pointed out that learning from accel paper!
@@snared_ I thinks it's mostly a concern of privacy, but it certainly opens the possibility for a lot of nefarious activities to be carried out across all of society (not just the US). Be that by private companies or hackers taking advantage of the technology, it seems like a horrible idea to have these little recording devices everywhere.
You can say that it's too expensive and hard to analyze it all. But there are times that I've had a conversation with somebody and then gotten an ad for something that that was the very first time that particular potential purchase had been discussed
Ah, but one of the scary things about modern life is the realisation of how predictable we are. Paul refers to a very famous example... even if he's totally messad the details up. The incident of the pregnant teen getting new mum recommendations was so long ago that the kid is probably in high school now. I don't think there was ever a law suit about it... and if there was, it certainly wouldn't still be going on now.
Instead, the way I recall it, the dad went mental at the company... and then apologised when it turned out his daughter was pregnant.