[yangtheman]

Am I the only one who is skeptical about this announcement? I am sure the amount of data Facebook has will be huge asset to any sort of AI development, but precisely because of the amount of data and the kinds of data they have, it's just scary what this could be used for...

AI that has personal information of 500M+ people, using it to manipulate people...(first to click on advertisements, and then much more). In the hands of government, I shudder to think what's possible. With NSA already snooping around, perhaps it's not all that distant.

[justaman]

The announcement of an organization who's revenue is based on advertising doing research into AI deeply scares me. Take a look at this MIT study. Each day our corporation based government takes a step closer to 1984 and each day people become more and more apathetic and quick to change the subject at the first sign of the conversation.

http://web.mit.edu/people/amliu/Papers/PentlandLiu_NeuralCom...

[tehf0x]

Umm what do you think google's revenue is based on?

[justaman]

Google's mission is "Dont be evil". They have since crossed this line, and will again. I do not trust google either.

[Karunamon]

If you consider selling ads and complying with the appropriate authorities when compelled to "evil", that is.

[eli_gottlieb]

That was published in 1999 and we still don't have pre-crime reporting security cameras flagging me everywhere I go.

Just saying.

[Houshalter]

Technology takes time. We'll have them soon, just wait.

[jfoster]

Would facebook's data actually be useful to the NSA? I think they would get a lot more actionable data out of emails, SMSes, phone transcripts, accounting software, project management software, etc. The only thing I can imagine facebook being good for is perhaps knowing who they want to start looking at in the future. Search engine history might be more effective for that, though.

[justaman]

The point is, this data exists. The NSA has all of it. What are they doing with it? Probably nothing good.