Comments on: Yuri Milner on the future of the internet http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2011/09/23/yuri-milner-on-the-future-of-the-internet/ Tue, 14 May 2013 18:04:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: lhathaway http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2011/09/23/yuri-milner-on-the-future-of-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-2573 lhathaway Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:55:42 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/?p=1307#comment-2573 They have a very interesting feature that suggests new relationships to us, and these algorithms are so good right now that there is a more than 50 percent chance that we will accept friendship based on this artificial intelligence recommendation. And I clearly see that times that are not so far off where companies like Facebook will be in fact forming our social connections to a very significant extent. This is the scariest thing I've read in a long time. They have a very interesting feature that suggests new relationships to us, and these algorithms are so good right now that there is a more than 50 percent chance that we will accept friendship based on this artificial intelligence recommendation. And I clearly see that times that are not so far off where companies like Facebook will be in fact forming our social connections to a very significant extent.

This is the scariest thing I’ve read in a long time.

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