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The promise that technological revolutions lead to higher productivity and more free time almost always ends in disappointment. Whether this will be any different in the development of AI is debatable, says Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, founder of The Next Web, in BNR Nexus.
Ultimately, there was never an invention that led to more time for other things, says Veldhuijzen van Zanten. AI also comes with privacy dilemmas, he says. A more interesting question in this context is how far you should go in digital personalization personal assistants. “Transparency is crucial for the valuation of AI. How disturbing is it when someone reads a great poem and then it turns out that a personal assistant co-wrote it? »
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Developing his own AI in the form of a one-on-one personal assistant, ethical hacker Sanne Maasakkers immediately thinks of Clippy, Word’s less innocent personal assistant. “I think it’s pretty scary what they want to do with it; to have a useful little personal assistant, they have to collect an awful lot of information about you. A like-minded person, right? not a huge filter bubble?
Maasakkers wonders aloud if you need a personalized assistant to perform repetitive tasks. Or maybe a better question is: how far should you go to make it so personalized? When do we draw the line of: no more than that. Also be aware that the phone in your hand already contains a lot of information about you. From what he has of me now, I have no problem with that, but how far will you go?
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Veldhuijzen van Zanten recognizes the risk of such a filter bubble determining your algorithm – and then developing it. ‘Imagine: you are already radicalizing yourself and you are making a clone of yourself in the form of an AI that accompanies you in all your terrible ideas. I don’t know if all AI programmers can move forward yet.
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