Is facebook even cleverer than I thought?

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We went out walking at the weekend and my friend took a photo of this car being towed by an RAC truck. Upon viewing the photo, facebook took it upon itself to show me an advertisement.

Coincidence or tinfoil hat time? :o

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It is likely.

I noticed that iOS is now noticing when I am at the end of a car journey and telling me when the car stops how long it will take me to get to the next place it thinks I am going.

It is scarily accurate.
 
BDEE said:
I noticed that iOS is now noticing when I am at the end of a car journey and telling me when the car stops how long it will take me to get to the next place it thinks I am going.

It is scarily accurate.
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It is indeed accurate. When I leave work on Monday's I always go over to my parents' for dinner, but go home / elsewhere on other days of the week. Without fail on Monday night it tells me the time to my parents' house as soon as I get in the car, and guesses at other destinations on other nights.

Normally quite accurate on the estimated time too.
 
Sounds similar to Google Now which does the same thing guessing where you're going to be going next.

It's like a fake AI I suppose, it's trying to look intelligent but in reality it's just following some set algorithms of sorts? Must be quite complicated though.
 
I think there definately listening in too.

I was discussing wedding rings with my other half and was in a jewellers for an hour or so looking.

Later that evening, i had wedding ring adverts popping up. Nope, before you say, i hadnt searched on my phone.
 
Is location data on your phone? And is the jewlers you visited on facebook?

As for the RAC thing it's probably recognised the colour or even using ocr in pictures.
 
The cheap cheap rate only applies to cars less than 10 years old. I'm sure that Pug is older than 10 years old.
 
Facebook probably processed the image and determined it was a picture of roadside recovery and showed an associated advert. Very interesting if so, didn't know they did things to that extent.
 
kinobestew123 said:
Sounds similar to Google Now which does the same thing guessing where you're going to be going next.

It's like a fake AI I suppose, it's trying to look intelligent but in reality it's just following some set algorithms of sorts? Must be quite complicated though.
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Google Now helped me out the other week. Drove into York. Parked and went wandering.

Forgot where I parked and as the city is unfamiliar to me hadn't a clue.

Opened my phone and Now popped up and showed me where it was and offered walking directions. :D
 
I live in a houseshare and I opened up FB on my pc the other day, then I suddenly noticed that one of my housemates was on 'People you might know' :eek:

We don't have any of the same friends on there, so all I can guess is FB is getting the info from our router.

Makes me wonder what other kind of info FB is gathering behind the scenes
 
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