Saturday 26 October 2024
Oops...Too Late
It has been said that you should stop AI before it becomes too engrained into your lives. Oops, bit late i say.
I assume many of you woke up and glanced at your iPhone this morning which unlocked itself using the AI enhanced facial recognition function and maybe asked Alexa to put on some music, tell you the news headlines or weather and traffic using the AI speech recognition system while you ate breakfast .
You may have then driven your car to the workplace using the AI in the Sat Nav to identify the presence of obstacles, lanes, intersections and traffic lights and manoeuvre into that awkward parking spot.
While at work you may have got an alert on your phone from your AI powered Amazon Ring doorbell to tell you that you have a package delivered, maybe the Tesco delivery which was ordered over their Ai assisted website.
Lunchtime and you sit in the canteen scrolling through your phone reading news articles, scrolling through social media, making Google searches and buying more things online and therefore leaving a trail of clues about who you are and what you might want to spend your money which advertisers use AI to sift through this data for insights into your age, gender, lifestyle, disposable income and whether you’re into cooking, water skiing, makeup tutorials or sci-fi and allows companies to serve up specific, targeted adverts to you.
After you drive home you turn the lights on with your AI system and maybe set the robot vacuum cleaner off and fire off a few texts messages using autocorrect and maybe play a few games in an AI generated virtual environment before using your Alexa to find out the weather for tomorrow and setting your phone's alarm to do it all over again.
Yep, stop Ai before it gets too engrained into your human lives indeed.
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that's just the obvious stuff.
then there are the:
- millions of cameras watching you as you bounce about london, university, work, etc.
- your employer (unless self-employed) is gathering tons of data about the employees... do you have turnstiles, company wifi, is your smart phone on, do they have cameras (where do you enter/exit building; where do you walk at their properties; what are the walking patterns of the people in the building and what is the usage of conference rooms and desks - another of my patents), do you know where the hidden cameras are located (trust me), do they provide a cafeteria (health), how about a fitness center (health), do they have cell tower boosters to improve phone quality - track your phone usage (not what is spoken, just how many calls you make, where you are in the building when making a call, the number called/calling, etc.
- cell towers that track your phone as you move about (speed, places, dates, times, routes, other phones that are around you) not to forget the "false" cell towers used by policing agencies to capture and monitor said data...
- your calls, your web searches, your website clicks, email content, blog content, and all IM/text messages (ditto phone apps),
- data collection when you walk into any place with wifi (whether you log into their wifi or not),
- the junior-league hackers with apps that monitor all wireless activity in their proximity (better have encrpytion - VPN)
- if your car was built since, oh, say 1995, it has a black box (speed, brake usage, acceleration), if built since 2015 it is capturing and sharing data about your lights, seat belts, passenger count, speed, braking, turning, lane changes, distance to vehicles around you, use of smart phones, music, eyes front, hands on wheel, locks, and more
- your local grocery knows what you buy from them, when, how often, what you will pay, and they data can categorize your health risk (i patented that for life insurance circa 2010)...
worse, all these entities get hacked on a recurring basis. i was just informed that a healthcare provider of mine was hacked over a year ago. the hackers now know as much about my health as my doctors...
then there are all the "smart" things in or on a house/apartment...
- my daughters know that "smart" cameras store data in the cloud... no cameras in our homes... btw way, "smart" means a device with at least one cpu (data capture) and a radio (2-way communications)
- smart washer/dryer
- smart oven/microwave/fridge
- smart tv
- smart thermostat
- smart lights and light bulbs
- our small backwoods town has "smart" water and electric meters
- does your car tell your house you are near so the garage door can open without you having to push a button?
- does your doorbell tell you doors to unlock?
- do you have a security system tracking movement in your home, window usage, door usage, lock status, etc.
- smart smoke detector?
buyer beware
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