Is Google getting too smart for its own good? Google’s artificial intelligence Gestapo are now forcing your birthday to appear on other people’s Google calendars. I personally noticed this back in November, when a casual trader friend of mine, previously unbeknownst to me, had a birthday on November 8 that appeared on my calendar. With another friend, we wanted him to go out that night and celebrate this birthday. When we approached him, he was shocked we knew his birthday, as it was a closely guarded secret and, I discovered, he disliked birthday attention. How did his birthday get into…
Google Birthday Push Shows "Ugly Side Of Algorithms"
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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