• Technology

    Target Acquired: AI, Ads, & My Own Kid

    I’m frequently impressed by the algorithms working behind the scenes on our social media apps. They can be scarily-accurate, you know? One of my favorite things to do -and my kids can attest to this annoying habit of mine- is to jam my phone screen into their faces without warning, saying, “See this TikTok and how it just happens to be about dolphins? WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT DOLPHINS.” I love watching technology do its thing, even if one day AI will rise up and kill us all; after all, I’ve seen Terminator II and I know where this is going. (Well they won’t kill ME, because I’m always super…

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