This reminds me of that TV show with Mr. Reese, Harold and the machine that watches everyone. (Can't remember the name of it to save my life)


The over 9 million citizens of Hangzhou, China, have been under constant surveillance by artificial intelligence since October 2016.
The Orwellian “City Brain” allegedly seeks to make life in Hangzhou easier by tracking traffic, crime, commutes, purchases, interactions, general movements, and more. Residents were tracked both generally and specifically, with City Brain even plugged into local social media. It even uses their cell phones.

A year later, rush hour traffic is down. So are crime and car accidents. City Brain notifies authorities if a car is illegally parked and makes tracking criminals almost trivial. It adjusts traffic light patterns to reduce congestion in the streets and will contact individual commuters to offer detours and weather advisories.

Alibaba AI Manager Xian-Sheng Hua credits the lack of concern from the Chinese people for the project’s success. In early October 2017 at the World Summit AI conference, he said that “in China, people have less concern with privacy, which allows us to move faster.”

The AI nanny is so effective that it is drawing praise despite objectively disturbing privacy implications. With its success, Alibaba plans to implement it in other Chinese cities — and from there, to package it for international use. It represents an easy fix for bureaucrats looking to save money on managing a bustling metropolis… at the cost of any modicum of privacy.


http://www.breitbart.com/tech/...-in-other-countries/

Oh hell no.

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
This reminds me of that TV show with Mr. Reese, Harold and the machine that watches everyone. (Can't remember the name of it to save my life)

Person of Interest.

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
This reminds me of that TV show with Mr. Reese, Harold and the machine that watches everyone. (Can't remember the name of it to save my life)

Person of Interest.

The 'evil' system was named "Samaritan". Evidently the show really was at least a partial indication of possible future use/abuse of technology.

This particular slope has greased owl sh*t on it.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
This reminds me of that TV show with Mr. Reese, Harold and the machine that watches everyone. (Can't remember the name of it to save my life)

Person of Interest.

The 'evil' system was named "Samaritan". Evidently the show really was at least a partial indication of possible future use/abuse of technology.

This particular slope has greased owl sh*t on it.

Good show. I'm bingining it now.

We already have all the tracking we need, courtesy of Google/Apple/Facebook.

Just a matter of time until Big Sister marries Big Brother.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
We already have all the tracking we need, courtesy of Google/Apple/Facebook.

Just a matter of time until Big Sister marries Big Brother.

Insert West Virginia joke here.

(Disclaimer: I grew up in WV.)

If it works as well as everything else made in China, they couldn't find a Wang with two Hans.

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Originally posted by Monk:
If it works as well as everything else made in China, they couldn't find a Wang with two Hans.

SO, Skynet starts in China. Figures...

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
SO, Skynet starts in China. Figures...

That way the communists can murder millions more.

I just bet everything is all better now says the Politburo.

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Alibaba AI Manager Xian-Sheng Hua credits the lack of concern from the Chinese people for the project’s success. In early October 2017 at the World Summit AI conference, he said that “in China, people have less concern with privacy, which allows us to move faster.”

Of course they are only 'faster' in the direction their Masters want them to move. Try doing something they don't approve of and then get back to me.

China blocks most non-Chinese social media, so most people used QQ (like Facebook) first, and now WeXin or WeChat, which is actually a very well implemented phone app that is like a lite version of facebook, along with all kinds of messaging, as well as a peer to peer payment system. Interestingly, WeChat protects privacy of your postings way better than Facebook. Only friends of friends can see each other's comments on your photos and postings, so different friends and social groups cannot see each others comments, or your replies to them. Perhaps this is more of a user requirement in China (think of the reason), and getting used to it makes you forget how much Facebook tries to broadcast everything to as many people as possible.


WeChat is now the standard communication system in China. And of course it's monitored by the government and stuff does get censored...