Following news report talks about Google’s “ thought experiment “ ,
detailed in a secret video titled “
The Selfish Ledger ”
Extract :
…it tells the
speculative story of how the technology giant might develop a universal model of human behaviour by collecting as much data from people as
possible.
What if the ledger could be given a volition or purpose, rather than
simply acting as a historical reference? What if we focused on creating a
richer ledger by introducing more sources of information? What if we thought of
ourselves not as the owners of this information, but as custodians? Transient carriers or caretakers.
The video goes on to suggest an AI algorithm could then use the ledger’s
data to steer people towards better behaviour….
I got reminded of my following thoughts, expressed in
an earlier blog :
* Technology has advanced so far – and continues to accelerate even faster
–
that it is possible to treat “ Content ( personal / private data
) “ like an air
molecule , which keeps travelling freely around the earth and
gets inhaled a
trillion times ( content consumption ) by a billion humans
. Introduction of 5G
and Li-Fi technologies will
speed up this process even further
* Parallel to the Theory of Thermodynamics ,
I would like to propound the
following as far as the
“ Theory of
Information “ is concerned :
“ Like Entropy , content keeps
growing with each and every human
interaction , either with
other humans or with his environment , and content
can no longer remain hidden , nor
can it be destroyed “
And as far as the ability of Google to “ modify human behaviour
“ ( to
steer people towards better behaviour….) , is
concerned, I urge readers to look up :
21 May
2018
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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