{"id":1603,"date":"2016-05-15T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2016-05-15T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T22:00:15","slug":"ai-is-here-and-on-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"AI is here&#8230; and on your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coffee machine is a great place to debate the world\u2019s issues.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course in a tech business,\u00a0 our discussions tend to dodge sports, politics and philosophy in favour of what\u2019s on our various phones!\u00a0 One of the team was trying to figure out how, when he googled a hotel he was planning to stay at, the google page also told him when he was booked there.\u00a0 How did it know?<\/p>\n<p>This kind of intuition has been around for a while \u2013 Google Now, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1610 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/big-brother-1.png\" alt=\"big brother\" width=\"297\" height=\"528\" \/>Microsoft Cortana and of course, Apple Siri.\u00a0\u00a0 For some time, my Android phone has been helpfully telling me where I parked, [[screen shot attached]] which way I normally drive to work, how long it will take and when I should leave, and other information.\u00a0\u00a0 Somehow it even knows about things that aren\u2019t in my diary \u2013 it knows I take my daughter to her sports on Tuesdays, and on Tuesdays it reminds where it is (as if I didn\u2019t know) and when I need to leave, even though this isn\u2019t in my diary.\u00a0\u00a0 How does it know that?\u00a0 It must be using the GPS in the phone and determining patterns.\u00a0\u00a0 When I travel away from home, it makes helpful suggestions \u2013 the local weather, local restaurants and points of interest, and if it\u2019s overseas, it tells me the exchange rate and the timezone differences.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I find this useful, but I can also see how it might be an invasion of privacy.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s going to be the challenge.\u00a0 As computers try to be smarter and more intuitive, they need to use all the clues they can.\u00a0 Whether this means they aggregate data to help you navigate the fastest way to a destination (e,g Google Maps) or they can profile you (Google Now), the intuition your device presents comes from its ability to take what it knows about you and draw conclusions.\u00a0 It won\u2019t always be right, but which of us is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure if we should be excited or nervous!\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coffee machine is a great place to debate the world\u2019s issues.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course in a tech business,\u00a0 our discussions tend to dodge sports, politics and philosophy in favour of what\u2019s on our various phones!\u00a0 One of the team was trying to figure out how, when he googled a hotel he was planning to stay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}