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Everyone is massively overestimating the abilities of machine learning.
@sexy_peach @ailiphilia and I think saddest thing is - not realizing potential in places where it could be actually usable, after reliable data inputs of course.
It will take time to integrate, to make something worthwhile. This hype in both excitement and fear is just eye roll moment. Reality check is badly needed.
Yes, there are a lot of chances and risks, and we must urgently develop rules how we deal with this new technology legally and ethically. There's a broad discussion needed across all parts of our society.
Doing nothing in that respect will entail devastating social consequences imo. My personal worst-case scenario: China will accelerate its Orwellian surveillance state. Some US companies will rise and forward all data to the NSA. And the EU will introduce strict privacy rules and then sign new Safe Harbor agreements making sure that exactly these privacy rules will never be truly enforced.
As a result we'll see a few more billionaires, while the mass of people and small businesses will pay the bill.