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Google and Facebook, which dominate the mobile ad market, also lead in location-based advertising. Both companies collect the data from their own apps. They say they don’t sell it but keep it for themselves to personalize their services, sell targeted ads across the internet and track whether the ads lead to sales at brick-and-mortar stores.
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
nytimes.com
The connections between invitations and behavior came to a head for cities in the 20th century. . . . In every case, attempts to relieve traffic pressure by building more roads and parking garages have generated more traffic and more congestion. The volume of car traffic almost everywhere is more or less arbitrary, depending on the available transportation infrastructure.
Cities for People
Jan Gehl, Richard Rogers (Foreword)
The need to always inform people when they are interacting with an A.I. system is one of the key principals in a set of recommended best practices released earlier this month by three leading companies working on language-generating A.I. systems.
Google A.I. Researcher's 'Sentient' Chatbot Claims Shows It's Time to Scrap the Turing Test | Fortune
Jeremy Kahn
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