snoopy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:17 am
excolonial AI is alive and well, and deployed successfully even in SA ... and its very useful in the right environment (applied to get a specific task done), oh and that doesnt just mean on the internet for the IoT.
We've all to a greater or lesser extent become data capital for others...thats a fact. And business loves to sell your profile to 3rd parties without your consent. Illegal in terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, but ...gha-ching.
Just today - I got a call from a 3rd party - to whom my personal information was sold by Telkom (so the 3rd party claims) - so that the 3rd party could attempt to solicit business from me. Only reason Telkom has my personal cellphone number is for technical support, if any lines should crash...and lately they ask you if you have any other number when you log a support call - than the cellphone number they already have...why? To expand data capital. All very subtle...but thats how its done.
Telkom is desperate for money - currently losing clients by the hordes. So they sell their client database for extra bucks. Despite this statement
https://www.telkom.co.za/about_us/downl ... e_2018.pdf
just one example of many...
I don't agree with you on this one, it may be semantics, but, as with many similar technologies the devil is in the detail. This sounds like simple database correlation, using quite simple analytical overlays to analyse historical behaviours, and then (usually) a fairly linear(and in my opinion almost meaningless) projection of future behaviours. Some would argue that projecting future behaviours from observed historic ones is better than nothing, I would argue that that depends....
Horsepower and storage are the biggest changes we are seeing at the moment.
I was speaking to a self appointed "genius" who patronisingly explained to me how data lakes and the cloud would change the face of banking. Data lake is just new bs name for data warehouse, and without structure they are meaningless. It may change the way we store things, and the reduced costs means we can be less efficient than we would otherwise need to be. Progress? I am not so sure. For companies like harmfulgoogle and Fakebook these lakes are gold mines. For those requiring carefully structured, relational data, the very idea has little meaning.
The older I get, the more I am convinced that "A Confederacy of Dunces" is non fiction.