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Amazon, Jeff Bezos and collecting data

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Geen bedrijf dat meer data verzameld en opslaat dan Amazon, voorheen alleen maar een online boekverkoper. Jeff Bezos, de baas van het bedrijf, is een van de rijkste mannen ter wereld geworden. Elke tweede euro in online handel wordt besteed bij Amazon.

Over Amazon, dataverzameling en wat het bedrijf daarmee kan doen: daar gaat deze video over. Het is een documentaire van DW Documentary. Zie hier hoe de documentaire wordt geïntroduceerd:

‘Is the IT giant, with its unabated growth, about to turn our economic system upside down? Amazon is a machine that can simultaneously observe, compare and analyze more than 300 million people worldwide. The company is not just a marketplace, market supervisor and provider of more and more services and consumer items – it also controls all the data streams in this market and uses them to its own benefit. Who suspects that a single click on an Amazon page will forward information to the company that fills a printed DIN-A-4 page? A conversation with Alexa, watching a streaming offer on Amazon-Prime, ordering vegetables via Amazon-Fresh – all this put together creates a whole library of information about every customer. The group collects everything – it just won’t reveal what conclusions it draws from it. What would be possible if data from other, new business areas were added? In the USA, Amazon is also active in the health and insurance sectors, and police officers are using its facial recognition software to search for wanted persons’.

Deze documentaire van mei 2019 is dan ook een ‘must see’!

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The great leap forward

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Een documentaire van DW Documentary over Artificial Intelligence en algoritmes, van 2019.

De film wordt als volgt geïntroduceerd:

‘Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are leading to fundamental changes in the way we live. Algorithms can already detect Parkinson’s disease and cancer, and control both cars and aircraft. How will AI change our society in the future? This documentary journeys to the hot spots of AI research in Europe, the USA and China, and looks at the revolutionary developments which are currently taking place’.

‘The rapid growth of AI offers many opportunities, but also many dangers. AI can be used to create sound and video recordings which will make it more and more difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. It will make the world of work more efficient and many professions superfluous. Algorithms can decide whether to grant loans, who is an insurance risk, and how good employees are’.

‘But there is a huge problem: humans can no longer comprehend how algorithms arrive at their decisions. And another big problem is AI’s capacity for widespread surveillance. The Chinese city of Rongcheng is already using an AI-supported ‘social credit system’ to monitor and assess its citizens. Does AI pose a danger to our personal freedoms or democracy? Which decisions can we leave to the algorithms – and which do we want to? And what are AI’s social implications?’

Het is een film van Tilman Wolff en Ranga Yogeshwar, ongeveer drie kwartier. De moeite meer dan waard!

De film is niet langer beschikbaar om te integreren in deze post, maar kan wel worden bekeken op deze site (aangepast op 31 juli 2025).

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