Artificial Intelligence or better profiling

Not that long ago, I was looking for a new job and was using Google mail to send out my resume.  It was late and I was trying to get everything done so I could make dinner.  In my haste I pressed send but the resume wasn’t yet attached.  The good news was that Google caught that slip.

It seems like you forgot to attach a file.

You wrote “I am attaching” in your message, but there are
no files attached.  Send anyway?

Just a good feature or is there a deeper ability?  Between cookies, a pixel or a website tracking tags the Internet is keeping a good eye on us.  Visit a few web sites and before you know it the electronic parts you were viewing on one site are showing up in the advertisements on the next site.

I have never had my phone or fitness band eavesdrop on my conversation, computer suggest Ashley Madison to me or get tracked by black helicopters, but indeed computers and software companies are getting much better at connecting the dots.

There is a good article in The Atlantic someone else’s view about paranoia.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy/407833/?single_page=true

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