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So here is the thing I | {{a|tech|}}So here is the thing I don’t understand. Where are the the buy-side bots? | ||
Everything we know about information revolution tells us they cannot be far away. [[Wikipedia]], crowd-sourced and free-for-all, vanquished Encyclopaedia Britannica. [[Reddit]] vanquished the hedgies. Yet, still, we all seem to be on a hiding to nothing from the monstrous technology conglomerates and their [[artificial intelligence|artificially intelligent]] catnip social media engines, systematically exploiting humankind’s innate horror of boredom — filling our heads with clangorous, quadrophonic noise that pleases us because it obscures the abysmal ''silence'' that otherwise would predominate — thereby aggregating, parsing tracking our every move, anticipating our every thought, nudging our preferences around as if we are cups on some giant [[Ouija board]], from it extracting some magical well of human weakness into which it relentlessly jams its products, thereby consigning us by degrees to some stale, mute, digital oblivion. | |||
now if your operating Theory is that the human mind is simply no match for the aggregated power of a neural network, then fine: but even here there is a limit comma and even our friends at LinkedIn are hinting at it with their ai-assisted comment prediction functionality. If AI can map, track and anticipate all human frailty and can thereby predict with greater certainty even then we we are next move, then the point must soon arrive when when AI is available for all of us to do our doom scrolling on our behalf. As Douglas Adams once remarked of a video cassette player, it is a labour saving device: it watching television for us that we don't have time to watch ourselves. And if I can have one boot perfectly emulating my my human browsing habits, surely I can have 1000. and if the technology is as good as billed — and I have no reason to believe it is not — then the forthcoming apocalyptic battle will not be between human and machine, but between our technology and theirs, and since their technology has no way of telling ours from us, it seems to me we have a natural advantage. If we each deploy 1,000 avatars to browse, like, and share are internet content ''at random'', constrained only by the requirement that it's browsing habits should emulate as nearly as possible those of some human, then all that wondrous aggregated data that Facebook, Google, Amazon and others gather is instantly worthless. | now if your operating Theory is that the human mind is simply no match for the aggregated power of a neural network, then fine: but even here there is a limit comma and even our friends at LinkedIn are hinting at it with their ai-assisted comment prediction functionality. If AI can map, track and anticipate all human frailty and can thereby predict with greater certainty even then we we are next move, then the point must soon arrive when when AI is available for all of us to do our doom scrolling on our behalf. As Douglas Adams once remarked of a video cassette player, it is a labour saving device: it watching television for us that we don't have time to watch ourselves. And if I can have one boot perfectly emulating my my human browsing habits, surely I can have 1000. and if the technology is as good as billed — and I have no reason to believe it is not — then the forthcoming apocalyptic battle will not be between human and machine, but between our technology and theirs, and since their technology has no way of telling ours from us, it seems to me we have a natural advantage. If we each deploy 1,000 avatars to browse, like, and share are internet content ''at random'', constrained only by the requirement that it's browsing habits should emulate as nearly as possible those of some human, then all that wondrous aggregated data that Facebook, Google, Amazon and others gather is instantly worthless. | ||