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Good thing I only have a Google account and a bank account and link nothing else to me online. Try as I might, no search engine seems to know I exist.

Sure some genius might think their model has got me nailed but even when I had a Twitter a decade ago and asked for my data Twitter had my age, gender (details I had in my profile btw) and number of kids I have wrong.

The problem with tech companies is they’re run by people and people are pudding brains who believe in magic. The problem with AI, as Chomsky said, is people will believe it. It’s true because they’ve been believing these other terribly inept systems they built, whether technological or social.



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