Thursday, July 21, 2016

Pokeyman reminds me of BankerBot

CBSNews  on Oliver Stone's reaction to Pokeyman Go:
Stone, as it turned out, had plenty to say on the matter. "It's a new level of invasion," Stone said of the game. "Nobody has ever seen, in the history of the world, something like Google, ever. It's the fastest-growing business ever, and they have invested huge amounts of money into what surveillance is, which is data-mining. They're data-mining every person in this room for information as to what you're buying, what it is you like, and above all, your behavior." So what does all that have to do with Pokemon Go? Stone was happy to elaborate.
"Pokemon Go kicks into that. It's everywhere. It's what some people call surveillance capitalism. It's the newest stage," he said. "You'll see a new form of, frankly, a robot society, where they will know how you want to behave and they will make the mockup that matches how you behave and feed you. It's what they call totalitarianism."
Bold face mine.  the mockup, it is your typical moves. Oliver is a smart kid, that is exactly what the bots do, they find and model the typical you.  Then they have you and the model co-adapt about that typical  motion.  We will do this because we maintain a partitite graph, as best we can.  We find that partite graph on the encode/decode tree, the Huffman encoded version of you that generates your typical moves from random noise taking paths through a copression/decompression graph.

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