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Indeed. That was worthy of a Top Gear audience comment.
Is facebook even cleverer than I thought?
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Indeed. That was worthy of a Top Gear audience comment.
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lol
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Software is clever, but the average user has a room temperature IQ.
i imagine thats more the gps than the conversation
as most things that do voice recognition (smart tvs etc) need to upload the audio to servers to work on it
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Nope, there is zero text against the photo, unlike that one posted above.
You can even see that no comments have been posted and no caption put on the photo on the right under my friend's name.
The photo was also just exactly how it was when it came off the camera still named DCIM00032.jpg or whatever.
The photo had only been uploaded a few minutes before so facebook acted quickly if they did anything.
It could still just be a coincidence and an RAC advert was being shown to me at that time.
If you hadn't previously looked anything related up on any Facebook connected device, then it was a coincidence. There are a lot of clever tricks Facebook and the likes use to match adverts to what you're looking at, however they do not extend to picking out a shade of orange and matching it to the RAC...
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only 1 answer to this op....
Aliens.
Aliens.
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I was in a shopping centre!
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'
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
could quite possibly be that - or your flatmate has visited your profile?
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Don't like how Facebook now suggests I share the last link i copied... which happened to be a link to my online bank account.
It's far too intrusive and I'm shortly going to get rid.
It's far too intrusive and I'm shortly going to get rid.
I wouldn't be so sure. Google's (and most likely Facebook's) artificial intelligence is becoming very smart.
http://time.com/3961571/google-inceptionalism/
http://time.com/3961571/google-inceptionalism/ said:
Apparently they used to have about seven layers of 'artificial neurons' and now they have over 30 - 35. It powers everything including Google Photos, for example, which allows you to just tell it to find something from your pictures (like 'my dog') and it will show you photos with that keyword. It's surprisingly accurate!
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html
No need for a tinfoil hat, since there isn't a secret conspiracy.
Facebook is entirely open about how it exists for the purpose of extracting as much information as possible about as many people as possible and selling it to advertisers. That's what Facebook is for and it's very good indeed at it. As is Google and, increasingly, other businesses and organisations. NSA/GCHQ/etc could learn a lot from them (and probably have).
Facebook is entirely open about how it exists for the purpose of extracting as much information as possible about as many people as possible and selling it to advertisers. That's what Facebook is for and it's very good indeed at it. As is Google and, increasingly, other businesses and organisations. NSA/GCHQ/etc could learn a lot from them (and probably have).