OK Now That Was Plain Creepy!

If you read it out loud your phone recorded it. I had a conversation at a store, went home, opened Facebook and the first thing that popped up was what I was talking about. Happens all the damn time now

Malu

I have a written list of supplements that I wanted to look up the various benefits of. I randomly read the 4th one on the list and had only started typing the word “benefits” when the suggestion “benefits of hyaluronic acid” popped up. WTF?! All I had done was READ hyaluronic acid.

Does google read minds now!

Years ago Google did something creepy to me, so I stopped using it.

Every time something does something creepy, I stop using it, like Facebook, etc.

I don't have cable or a router in my house anymore, I just use a free library hotspot now and then for fun.

I think it's crazy all this spyware people have in their homes.

I even stopped using those grocery store cards they hand out, that give you discounts. I'm strictly cash now.

If you read it out loud your phone recorded it. I had a conversation at a store, went home, opened Facebook and the first thing that popped up was what I was talking about. Happens all the damn time now

Malu

I was at a Kroger in Tennessee and I am bad about writing grocery lists. I was at the self checkout and I scanned my Kroger card and it started printing coupons.

A coupon came out for something that I had forgotten to buy. I quickly went and found it and continued checking out.

The computer knew it was time for me to get that item again based on my shopping history after I scanned my card..

I don't think you're done shopping, Dave.

If it had his voice I might have freaked out.

To the right of the self checkout machines was the employee time-clock and they had to scan their finger when they went for a smoke break. That was creepier to me.

If you read it out loud your phone recorded it. I had a conversation at a store, went home, opened Facebook and the first thing that popped up was what I was talking about. Happens all the damn time now

Malu

Nope. Didn’t read it out loud and hadn’t spoken about it nor had I done any previous searches.

I have a written list of supplements that I wanted to look up the various benefits of. I randomly read the 4th one on the list and had only started typing the word “benefits” when the suggestion “benefits of hyaluronic acid” popped up. WTF?! All I had done was READ hyaluronic acid.

Does google read minds now!

this is about google showing you results for things that you

1. did not speak beforehand

2. did not speak (or type) to anyone

3. did not search before

countless people have experienced this google mind reading

it has been going on for 5 years or more at this point

I have a written list of supplements that I wanted to look up the various benefits of. I randomly read the 4th one on the list and had only started typing the word “benefits” when the suggestion “benefits of hyaluronic acid” popped up. WTF?! All I had done was READ hyaluronic acid.

Does google read minds now!

What were you reading it from?
P.s. I'm pretty sure this has happened to me before also.
It is pretty creepy.

Made me wonder if there is some nano-bot human brain interface already somewhere but that seems totally impossible. So far mostly chalked it up to just good AI algorithms.

This does not matter. It uses an algorithm that learns from EVERYTHING you have EVER searched for over the course of time.

If you ever use google voice to text, it reads those and also feeds the algorithm that way too.

Ray Kurzwiel who is now at google had said in the past (I cannot find the quote) that in time, you will merely have to open the search engine to have the app or page give you the result you are looking for, WITHOUT actually typing anything.

They want to accomplish this with things like location awareness, tracking you from the past, and other things they feed into their AI.

Some phones do this with apps. My iPhone will know when I am near my gym, swiping down will give me apps I have used in that location in the past.

Google's own Pixel phones do this too, predictive based on where you are, and what you have done in the past.

It is a nifty feat of machine learning.

Let's hope the machines never reach the singularity that or Ray predicted.

If they do, and gain sentience, we are in trouble.

Why are you still using google? Are you retarded?

I wanted to know the difference between jams, jellies, marmalades etc.

I typed into Google "What's the difference between..."

And it filled in "jam and jelly".

I hadn't typed anything about it prior to that. I only was thinking about it in the kitchen at work.

Cool! I will try it, too!

NOT working!

I have a written list of supplements that I wanted to look up the various benefits of. I randomly read the 4th one on the list and had only started typing the word “benefits” when the suggestion “benefits of hyaluronic acid” popped up. WTF?! All I had done was READ hyaluronic acid.

Does google read minds now!

Lifelog aka facebook aka C_A is doing it, so is alphabet aka google aka C_A. So is etc...

"But way back in the ancient, prehistoric year of 2000, Google introduced MentalPlex: a new kind of search engine with a way of anticipating your search request before you could even type it!"


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I don't think you're done shopping, Dave.