They have bragged about how cheap and easy it is for them to hack our open society...
What many otherwise bright and internet-savvy people don't realize is that a few carefully written ads about gun control, abortion, immigration or taxes, which are targeted to the people who care about those issues most, can be fiercely motivating in the final days of an election. Pure propaganda works best, of course, as true believers don't fact-check. Multiply that effect by 100,000,000 page views and you wind up swinging a few key precincts. Get used to the new way of influencing popular thought.
Expect this to become more pervasive and more subtle. You can bet there are very smart people and big money working on this.
Does sound too good to be true. I'll wait for someone else to replicate the study before throwing my investment dollars at their soon-to-be-announced development company.
I laughed when I saw "...so much cancer research is published that it is impossible for any doctor to read it all. But since computers can read and understand so much more quickly, the systems will be able to read through all of the research and then put that to work on specific people's situations."
We will need algorithms that can detect and "mod down" questionable research first. Not all papers, even peer-reviewed papers, are equal quality.
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a remotely Russian-related company bought some vaguely political advertising space?
I love to read Anonymous Coward's comments in a fake russian accent. It adds a lot of depth.
They have bragged about how cheap and easy it is for them to hack our open society...
What many otherwise bright and internet-savvy people don't realize is that a few carefully written ads about gun control, abortion, immigration or taxes, which are targeted to the people who care about those issues most, can be fiercely motivating in the final days of an election. Pure propaganda works best, of course, as true believers don't fact-check. Multiply that effect by 100,000,000 page views and you wind up swinging a few key precincts. Get used to the new way of influencing popular thought.
Expect this to become more pervasive and more subtle. You can bet there are very smart people and big money working on this.
The best government money can buy.
Does sound too good to be true. I'll wait for someone else to replicate the study before throwing my investment dollars at their soon-to-be-announced development company.
Fake news? That could never happen here.
I laughed when I saw "...so much cancer research is published that it is impossible for any doctor to read it all. But since computers can read and understand so much more quickly, the systems will be able to read through all of the research and then put that to work on specific people's situations."
We will need algorithms that can detect and "mod down" questionable research first. Not all papers, even peer-reviewed papers, are equal quality.
Yes to all of those. I remember how much fun it was keeping all of my files on mag tape...