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Knowing what you say and do may not be enough to satisfy Facebook's data cravings, so it might get a deep-learning artificial intelligence system to figure out what you're going to do and how you feel about it. "You can call it by many names, but it's basically data analysis on steroids," said tech analyst Jim McGregor. The danger is that "Facebook or anybody tied to Facebook can sell this data."
Facebook has set up an eight-person team to look into how artificial intelligence can help it further analyze data it gathers on its members, the MIT Technology Review reported.
The team will work with an emerging AI technique called "deep learning."
In a possibly related development, Facebook updated a patent filing for real-time content searching in social networks. "
*"If you really get into it, you can identify someone from their pictures and their friends," he said. "This is what police departments and law enforcement [agencies] do -- develop profiles of people."
The danger is that "Facebook or anybody tied to Facebook can sell this data to anyone, so they'll be putting out a profile of you in the public view that they can sell," McGregor suggested.
Facebook did not respond to our request to comment for this story."
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upaloopa
(11,417 posts)it is there for anyone who has access one way or another.
I have a couple of friends who post something about themselves on facebook just about hourly, Mostly moaning and groaning about something or other.
Far as Im concerned, those people get what they deserve. And I know plenty like that. Blows my mind.