re: Microsoft president: Orwell's '1984' may 'come to pass in 2024' without AI protections

By 2024, he means 2020, correct?

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We’re pretty close, if not already at, predictive advertising. I have talked to people that firmly believe they’re seeing ads now on things they’ve THOUGHT about, not even said aloud.

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A lot of people wonder how ads are popping up on things you never googled. Well, it’a your smart phone. Despite being totally illegal, your phone often times picks up a key word you might use.

Example: Lets say you are talking to a friend and he mentions how he’d love to hit Disney world one day soon - and you both start discussing Disney world. The next thing you know is you’re seeing Disney ads.

You think it’s just coincidental, but then you try something like talking to a friend and mentioning an item like Binoculars. You see an ad about binoculars and you realize how scary this is.

I listened to a guy on radio that left a tech company years back and warning about this. Even back then he said the tech companies are breaking the law 24/7 because they do not feel threatened by congress or any govt official.