Personal Privacy and Artificial Intelligence

The creepiness of AI-driven content recommendation on YouTube and other websites

(Thu Oct 03 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) How many movies are about an AI driven robot or computer that takes over the world? What used to be the stuff of science fiction is beginning to happen. One example is the YouTube video recommendation algorithm, that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to recommend videos for you to watch. This seems benign enough, and YouTube does a fairly good of recommending videos, but have you stopped to think how much YouTube knows about you and your preferences?