I’m convinced The Google is listening

jcramsey

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Was heading to Marion this past weekend to see my family. My wife had Waze pulled up on her phone since we’d been in some awful traffic earlier. Coming down 74 and about to hit 221, I heard the apps voice say “Proceed to Rulfton”.

No way that those Waze programmers know that’s how you’re supposed to say it. :D

The Google is listening and learning....
 
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Similar experience, we were headed to the coast and following a older ford truck with a large dog sitting right beside his owner...I was mentioning to the wife if the dog was going to drive the rest of the way to the beach ....The Google chimes in "Dogs can't drive" .....we both looked at each other in amazement. ..

Zoo City Sawz
 
AI already exist, its listening every day. Created unintenionally, it lives.

Be careful you don't piss it off.

Sending terminator...
 
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We have one of those Amazon Echos. I know that shit listens to us, which I guess has actually been proven but whatever.

The other day one of the light fixtures in the hallway stopped working. Now, these are fixtures that came with the house and I've never done any searches related to it. I said to my wife "remind me to order a new ballast for the light in the hallway."

The next morning in my email - Amazon recommends THE EXACT DAMN BALAST I NEED. How the hell is that even possible.
 
My wife wanted one of them echo things. Told her if she bought one, id use it for target practice. If you want an echo, go holler across the hollar.
 
Blaze said:
The next morning in my email - Amazon recommends THE EXACT DAMN BALAST I NEED. How the hell is that even possible.
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If it's a standard cheap fluorescent light fixture of the type usually used in hallways and foyers, they pretty much all use the same ballast. It's even easier if you've ordered bulbs for that fixture from Amazon, or really any site that sets browser cookies.

You can come down off of the ledge of paranoia now. :D

Seriously though, the Google and Amazon devices may make your life easier, but they're really just thinly disguised marketing machines. They help you out, and learn about you, so they can sell you stuff. And you bought the device too, so you've already paid them to help continuously market things to you.
 
Google Duplex books appointment
 
Fabrik8 said:
If it's a standard cheap fluorescent light fixture of the type usually used in hallways and foyers, they pretty much all use the same ballast. It's even easier if you've ordered bulbs for that fixture from Amazon, or really any site that sets browser cookies.

You can come down off of the ledge of paranoia now. :D

Seriously though, the Google and Amazon devices may make your life easier, but they're really just thinly disguised marketing machines. They help you out, and learn about you, so they can sell you stuff. And you bought the device too, so you've already paid them to help continuously market things to you.
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Nope, never bought any bulbs for it. It's one of those ones with the two round fluorescent bulbs in concentric circles, so has that weird ballast. That's why it spooked me. Maybe there is a Google camera somewhere in my house too. :lol:
 
harmonic resonance frequecy...butt i dont think the mic is that good
 
I heard some discussion about that this morning on finance news. The prevailing attitude seems to be that this is the way of the future and things will happen as the technology is refined. I really can't comprehend that. You are inviting a device into your home that is marketed as always listening. Are folks really shocked that it always listens? I choose not to have one because it creeps me out, and I find little utility in it. Do people think they need to have it a la keeping up with the Joneses, or what?
 
Ill say this.

If you have any sort of google app on a smart phone, even with battery off, or gps off. It is tracking all your movements and sending the data to cloud. For very legit data harvesting marketing reasons, not big brother reasons. Now whether big brother has access... thats another story.

Your smart phones have accelerometers which can track the force of your movements and differentiate stops, turns, etc. Smartphones store this data even when turned off, and apps like Google harvest this data and send it off next time youre connected to internet.
 
We got one of the google thingamajiggers as a gift over Christmas, it’s still in its wrapper and will be regifted probably to another friend that will do the same.

If someone feels the need for one of these and the simple tasks it can do, what’s next? They’re making us lazy.
 
jyaks said:
Who is "they" the robots?
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Marketers. As soon they figure out the slightest thing to make life a single hair easier people are all over it. I could give endless examples and I’m sure it would offend people:D
 
GONOVRIT said:
Marketers. As soon they figure out the slightest thing to make life a single hair easier people are all over it. I could give endless examples and I’m sure it would offend people:D
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I was just joking. You know one of the what do you mean you people kinda things
 
GONOVRIT said:
We got one of the google thingamajiggers as a gift over Christmas, it’s still in its wrapper and will be regifted probably to another friend that will do the same.

If someone feels the need for one of these and the simple tasks it can do, what’s next? They’re making us lazy.
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Alex's mom gave us one for Christmas. It stays in the garage to stream music. But I still tell it to tell the NSA I said hello before I ask it to turn on music.

On a serious note. A few months back a couple of us had begun having issues with Rotella in our dirtbikes. It had been the recommended gear oil for years for Rekluse clutches. Well the T4 formula had been changed slightly and we began roasting drive plates after just a few hours. I haven't googled for Rotella or similar oil in years. I made two quick phone calls, one to Rekluse for their recommendation and then to a buddy to tell him what to go buy before the next race. As soon as I hung up, I flipped open FB to send the message to our riding group and sure enough there were banner ads for Rotella T4....fuckin Skynet.
 
StretchASU said:
Alex's mom gave us one for Christmas. It stays in the garage to stream music. But I still tell it to tell the NSA I said hello before I ask it to turn on music.

On a serious note. A few months back a couple of us had begun having issues with Rotella in our dirtbikes. It had been the recommended gear oil for years for Rekluse clutches. Well the T4 formula had been changed slightly and we began roasting drive plates after just a few hours. I haven't googled for Rotella or similar oil in years. I made two quick phone calls, one to Rekluse for their recommendation and then to a buddy to tell him what to go buy before the next race. As soon as I hung up, I flipped open FB to send the message to our riding group and sure enough there were banner ads for Rotella T4....fuckin Skynet.
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What, how could you not use Rotella? I still run t6 in mine, but yeah what should I be running?
 
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