Cambridge Analytica is in the news as part of the Facebook scandal. It seems the communists are outraged that the right used social media data sold to them by Facebook; apparrently they thought they had a monopoly on this.
Anyway, scandal aside, it appears that weopanized AI is a jeanie that has left the bottle and can't be put back.
This article, published a year ago, makes some amazing claims about how much data is out there about everyone and how powerful that data is when coupled with some modest AI and clever marketing techniques. For example, the allegation is that Bannon targeted likely Hillary voters (rather than undecideds) and simply persuaded them to not vote. Unclear if this is what he actually did or this is just sour grapes - after all, Dems really preferred Bernie Sanders but Hillary rigged the primary, so we don't know if lower Dem turnout was due to Sanders not being on the ballot or clever marketing by Bannon. So take the claims with a grain of salt. In any event, the predictive ability of data profiles is a given, and is a jeanie that has left the bottle.
Perhaps the biggest irony is, if true, it was Facebook and Zuck, not Russia, who colluded with Trump.
https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-w...da-machine
Anyway, scandal aside, it appears that weopanized AI is a jeanie that has left the bottle and can't be put back.
This article, published a year ago, makes some amazing claims about how much data is out there about everyone and how powerful that data is when coupled with some modest AI and clever marketing techniques. For example, the allegation is that Bannon targeted likely Hillary voters (rather than undecideds) and simply persuaded them to not vote. Unclear if this is what he actually did or this is just sour grapes - after all, Dems really preferred Bernie Sanders but Hillary rigged the primary, so we don't know if lower Dem turnout was due to Sanders not being on the ballot or clever marketing by Bannon. So take the claims with a grain of salt. In any event, the predictive ability of data profiles is a given, and is a jeanie that has left the bottle.
Perhaps the biggest irony is, if true, it was Facebook and Zuck, not Russia, who colluded with Trump.
https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-w...da-machine