Google gambling: to create intelligent high idiot

It is said that Google's intelligence has been used to gamble. Real-time sports data, as well as Twitter, Google cloud computing, can predict the game's data, the outcome of the game all 16 to 8 projections are correct. Moreover, it is apprehended that the following four contentions give a prediction: Brazil wins 71% of Colombia and Brazil; France wins Germany and France 69%; Netherlands vs Costa Rica, Netherlands wins 68%; Argentina Belgium, Argentina, 81% chance of winning ...

You say, will this be accurate? If it is accurate, we do not gamble, buy Google algorithm directly! The charm of football lies in its contingency, although the strong teams have a greater probability of winning, but there is no permanent winner on the track - of course, "China's national men's adult football team," perhaps excluded. Therefore, this prediction is quite suspenseful on paper, or Italy, Spain will not be out.

Create an idiot with high intelligence

Google is obviously not only predicting the World Cup, Google glasses, Google Now also want to predict people's needs - which has been identified as Google's strategic mission, known as context-aware computing (Contextually aware computing). In other words, you are bound to have a need in a scenario, and Google knows what you need to push you to a service.

For example, you line up too long in the bank, suddenly want to download an e-banking APP to solve it. At this time, you do not need to go to an app store, Google will recommend you download link here, and then you are done online, the app will be automatically uninstalled. This is obviously more advanced than LBS-based search, which is "on-demand."

In other words, Google's predictive nature is still a type of search, except that the search is based not only on so-called big data, cloud computing, but also on your scene. The same is true for on-court projections, and if the various data on the scene can be transmitted to Google's cloud, it may know which of the muscles is being exhausted by Messi and the overall speed of a team has begun to decline ... It is theoretically possible to come up with a "probability."

In fact, search engine, like the common brain of human society, is the "cloud" of human knowledge. The key is that it can become more and more intelligent, but human beings themselves can not evolve so quickly. The end result is that people are less likely to need to store information in their brains, do not even have to remember a lot of things, and they need to find a search. A recent survey of a body of an organization also proves this point, after a lot of 95 roots, and use the map to navigate is not good?

However, it may turn more and more humans into "idiots." This is by no means alarmist, and when you have not yet realized what exactly you need, all your needs have been pushed before you, at a time when human beings are not slaves to the machine, they are part of the machine. IBM's dark blue can not beat the chess master it? A few years ago, people also thought that more than a dozen computers could not defeat the Go master, and more than nine Kudans have recently lost their hands in front of the machine.

This is the machine's invasion of humans. Or, at that time, humans will have their own new evolutionary direction? Who knows, pessimism is one day, optimism is a day.

The real tragedy of technology

Technology is always neutral, the key is how people use it, before people are still afraid of the train, afraid of the plane, afraid of the phone too! But others think humans are always moving forward, without over-scaring the machine.

In fact, we are not afraid of the machine, but the person behind the super machine. This fear, by no means the fear of the machine, but the fear of people not equal control of the machine.

When Indians armed with bows and arrows to "fight" with the Spanish army, it was basically a slaughtered scene. Because, we have different tools. The dreadedness of a smart machine lies in who grasps it, who controls it, and who can authorize it to use.

The real tragedy of technology is that technology, after all, is technology, it can not change the people who use it, good or bad, justice or evil, is random and difficult to control.

Facebook, for example, recently conducted an emotional experiment with an average user on their social network, which can be soundingly stated that this is to improve the product experience. So, one day, Google can glimpse everyone's inner activities, stored in their own servers, one day, your mind will be the basis for advertising?

Since capital is self-serving, this possibility has always existed. The problem is that nowadays machines have become extremely powerful. A little bit of evil in mastery of machines can reach billions of people and incur immeasurable harm.

The reverse is also true: the NSA monitors more than 190 countries on the grounds that it protects the safety of Americans, otherwise the whereabouts of terrorists can not be known. The question is, the number of Iraqis who have been molested by the name of 911 has already far surpassed the victims of September 11, and how many deeds have been used under the guise of morality?

So, technological progress has not significantly improved human beings, thousands and thousands of years ago or now. New technological inventions often bring about changes in the new pattern of interests: the ironware helped the ancient Syrians enlist in the surrounding areas, the Qin crossbow helped to begin the emperor's reunification of the Warring States, the guns helped Spain ravage the Americas, and the atomic bomb almost became Hitler's killer ... Technology, so they have a unique status in that era, has a huge potential evil.

Regardless of the face of Google, the face of Facebook, or facing BAT, as long as the monopoly, should be on guard, this is not a technical issue, nor is it a question of values, but the dark side of human nature, capital for profit, the game of power technology Refraction of the field nothing.