Has anyone actually had a chance to try this feature on the Apple Watch 4? All the demo videos so far keep saying the feature is coming but no one actually has used it yet. I'm curious in how frequent it produces false positive results and in what types of situations or activities.
Having said that, I love the direction Apple is taking with this product. Smart watches have been on the market for quite a number of years now but they're pretty much restricted to being gimmicky devices only as most people don't find it very useful or have a real need for it. If Apple could achieve the breakthrough in blood glucose monitoring feature then I strongly believe we will see mass adoption in very near future.
Look, if anyone wants to business in China, they would have to comply to the demands of government there, that's no question. It's common sense and nobody can avoid this. I think the question we need to ask is what motivates Google to return to this market? Does the costs and benefits analysis report show enough evidences to justify this action?
It must be fashionable now to hate on Google, but they are still miles ahead of other guys. They may no longer "not be evil" but to me they're still the least evil option compared to other companies. Besides, Google has done many wonderful things for our generation. We've been taking things for granted, imagine a world without Google search. Remember Yahoo!?
I understand your logic and I fully agree because I was on your side. If there really is a choice nobody would want it to be this way. Unfortunately our current world is not a utopia.
Let me give an example, suppose no countries on earth had nuclear weapons. We all know how deadly and devastating its effects can be to humankind. Let's say initially all nations agreed that it's bad for all of us and nobody should pursue it. However, if ONE country broke the contract and started developing nuclear weapons on their own. Do you think the remaining countries can afford to stay at their same positions and not start developing it too? Once someone starts doing it, all bets are off! You can apply the same logic to any unethical technological experiment, such as cloning human. Google really had no choice, if they don't adapt they will be out of the game within the next 10 years.
I had the same mindset as yours perhaps a year or two ago, until I realized a couple of things that completely changed my mind. This is a little off the main topic but you see, when it comes to privacy, we like to think that we have it in our control but in fact we don't. As Snowden has proven, what the NSA is doing is far worse than Google. You just don't know it because it's completely hidden and sealed off from the public. But why do they have to conduct such extreme level of data mining you ask? Well, we are not living in manufacturing age anymore, that was maybe 40-50 years ago, we are living in an information age now. Everybody agrees that information is the new oil or the new currency. For the United States to continue being the leader of the world, it would be absolutely foolish for anyone to think that they don't have a complete and total full control of this key component.
The public needs to start changing their mindsets and begins to accept that all information in your private life is being recorded. The only important aspect that needs to be questioned is to what extend the data is going to be used. Are some companies not going to hire you simply because of something you did in your private life three years ago that they may not agree with? That would be unacceptable to me as it would definitely cross the line. It is what I consider similar to the "social credit" system being implemented in China, in which everyone is under surveillance at all times and given scores for activities such as grocery shopping. There are always two sides of the extremes, and the balance we should strive for is somewhere in the middle.
It's impossible to ask U.S companies like Google not to conduct data mining on their users. How do you expect them to compete with companies in other countries that monitor their users 24/7 and have access to larger and more accurate data? In the age of information and artificial intelligent, those companies will win the battles simply because they will have better insights that Google won't ever have. Companies in the West cannot readily admit what they're doing because the public mindset is not yet ready for this change. It's too drastic and against many values we have been familiar with our entire life. But our world is changing very quickly, it is not the same world as before, it's understandably very difficult for most people to wrap their head around this but we need to update our mindsets even if that means changing our values. Companies like Google cannot disclose what they do because of public backlash they will receive. If people are just going to switch to another company, all their investments will have been lost, and the next company will be forced to do the same anyway. Google's recent move was probably the best way to test out public water, and it is already not looking very good. I don't know if governments from the West will ever be able to crack this issue.
This really proves in the arts and creative business, it's really an individual's work that connects the souls. You can have a team of thousands of people, but if no one has any vision or creativity then their work can go straight down the toilet.
For now yes, but the tech world has showed us similar lessons before. I bet Blackberry and Nokia executives said the same thing when Apple introduced the first iPhone. MySpace was very confident when they deemed Facebook number of users was negligible as well. Unfortunately privacy issues are only getting bigger in the future. That's why I said Google should be very careful not to tread down the same path. Only those who learned lessons from the past will survive. I love Google so I hope they won't get too comfortable with data mining activities and lose track of keeping their users who are the real data sources.
I can't wait to see their first publishing. With every article seemingly a sponsored piece nowadays, it's almost impossible to identify those with hidden agendas from reporters whose only interest is to fill up their quotas. I'm happy to see any news source that I can trust.
Mr. Newmark has put it correctly when he said "we're at an information war now". I have seen it first hand how information was reported incorrectly and intentionally on popular news websites just to attack and harm individuals. Our privacy is long gone as people spying on you just so they can sell your private life information to those who have interest. Information is literally being used as weapon nowadays so it's really time we need to wake up.
I hope they have enough power that will back them up as no doubt they will face relentless pressures from the big tech companies.
Google should be very careful with these aggressive tactics. They are quickly losing many users. There are other options available nowadays, including browser like Brave. I personally have switched back to Firefox. I still like Google but they are falling into the same old trap of not listening to their users. The moment they let that escalated and there are other viable options then the game is over.
I agree completely. As you mentioned, it's collectivism vs. individualism, people from the West with different values and beliefs system would not be able to understand what drives and motivates the average Chinese citizens, and vice versa. We can sit here and point our fingers all day, but does it really matter if the people who live there are happy? The two systems have vastly different principles, it's unreasonable and impossible to conform them into one.
Nothing in life is black and white as we tend to label them. There are always pros and cons in everything. As we approach the age of AI, this chapter could even be considered as a new experiment in the history of humankind. None of us can accurately predict the future so it might actually be beneficial to witness the outcome from such experiment. Good or bad, there will be something here for everyone to learn.
Last time I checked, freedom of movement is an essential human rights. It's all good as long as it doesn't happen to you right? You see, when you allow someone to dictate every detail of how you should live your life, that means you're being oppressed. We are all different individuals with different needs. Does the person dictating your life have the same needs as you? NO! Someone has set up a template based on their own ideas and completely ignored your own personal preferences. You have been reduced to nothing more than a bot or a walking dead at this point.
One thing I agree is that if this is what China want to do with their country then let them have a go at it. It's their country, people have different values and beliefs in China that citizens from the West will never understand. We can disagree with them, but it is not right for us to interfere or try changing the way how their society functions. Only the future will tell what's best for all of us.
Human made video game "The Sims", now we have officially reversed it and turn ourselves into those game characters. The AI is now shaping our behaviors and dictating what we buy, eat, and drink. The scores are even live and updated in real time. Well done human, you have played yourself.
I think the article hits the nail right on its head, nobody really knows anything anymore. Not the person running it, or the person sitting at the top has gotten any clue about the very systems that they have created.
Mark Zuckerberg said in his first public statement when the news of Facebook privacy issues broke out that it was absolutely impossible and ridiculous for anyone to think Facebook could ever had any stake at all in the election. Less than a year later, his tone has changed significantly as he had more time to learn of what's really going on inside the platform that he created and has been running it as the CEO himself, with thousands of employees working under him.
I think this tells the tale of our AI future. As the system reaches a level so complex that it's very likely no single individual, not even the creator of the AI network himself, will understand how everything really works. How can we prevent an engine, that has gotten too big for its own good, to collapse when we are incapable of even servicing it?
The truth is NOBODY knows anything anymore because we are all drowning in the sea of information. There is too much of it and it's like a bag of wires all tangled up. The more we learn the more we realize that we know nothing. Our path to enlightenment is completely blocked by the same knowledge that we have accumulated. It's like the modern Alzheimer disease in which the accumulated beta-amyloid protein has blocked all of our neural pathways. The question is, is there even a way to unlearn what we have learned?
I'm trying to be as objective as possible. I've never been to China, but I've been to other communist country and the truth is I saw a lot of happy citizens there. While we can sit here and criticize other countries all day, but does it really matter if their own people are living happily there? We can argue and fight all day for the best policies, best technologies, best business ideas, etc. but at the end of the day what everyone is really looking for is just happiness. You can have the most money in the world and still be miserable, our world is already full of those people.
I added Twitter to my firewall blocked list so now anytime I click on a Twitter link it just doesn't work at all. Won't waste my time in the cesspool if I can't even go there.
If only business was really that simple. Apple manufactures all their devices in China. Even Google and Facebook are trying to get back to the Chinese market now.
People within the industry expect China to win the AI race by 2030 simply because they have a huge data source advantage which leads to better results. It was not a coincidence that Google significantly ramped up their data mining activities when they decided to switch from a "Mobile first" to an "AI first" company. Why do you think Google and Facebook are suddenly willing to bend over to the Chinese government demands just to establish their presence there?
Are they telling me other companies in the West are not doing this and only Lenovo in China does it? I would find that hard to believe. You see, the reality is once your opponent has made the move first in an attempt to gain a competitive advantage, no matter how unethical that move is, you are forced to do the same or even more. If not you'll be quickly left so far behind and won't ever have the chance to come back in the race. Despite whatever anyone has told you, that's how the real world works. Our companies may not readily admit what they're doing but in reality they have little choices. It's similar to countries that don't possess nuclear weapons are always second class in the world's power order. The time limit to join first class was gone a long time ago and it will never come back.
This article has all the elements of a sponsored review but it was done extremely well and the author provided many detail information which I have to give him credit for that. The ECG feature is the only reason I would ever buy an iWatch, if it works as advertised. Apple is smart to focus in the health niche as there are no other valid reasons an average person would ever need a smart watch in their life.
Having said that, I love the direction Apple is taking with this product. Smart watches have been on the market for quite a number of years now but they're pretty much restricted to being gimmicky devices only as most people don't find it very useful or have a real need for it. If Apple could achieve the breakthrough in blood glucose monitoring feature then I strongly believe we will see mass adoption in very near future.