"The system knows everything about him: where he went, who his friends are, who his family is, what keeps him busy, what he said and what he published. Using artificial intelligence, the system analyzes behavior"
I would not be the least bit surprised if the above "behavior analysis" is literally as stupid as sucking in all the target's Tweets (and his family/friends) and "analyzing" them. How else do you get easily consumable data about behavior? Location info doesn't tell you behavior, only location. Call activity and transcripts only tell you what the subject wants you to hear, if they know they are under surveillance - and I am 100% HAMAS people know they are under surveillance.
This kind of thing is typical ivory tower/nerd nonsense.
Ex NYT: “Hamas took advantage of that weakness by sending aerial drones to attack the cellular towers that transmitted signals to and from the surveillance system, according to the officials and also drone footage circulated by Hamas on Saturday and analyzed by The New York Times.”
“Without cellular signals, the system was useless. Soldiers stationed in control rooms behind the front lines did not receive alarms that the fence separating Gaza and Israel had been breached, and could not watch video showing them where the Hamas attackers were bulldozing the barricades. “
They might have understood that this situation was unsustainable if they used the Human Intelligence that Bob Dylan offered us a long time ago, "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose".
This report certainly lends credence to my oft pronounced outrageous claim that 'artificial intelligence does not exist'. Makes me feel like a prophetess, but I'd best be careful....I don't want to fall down the same narcissist mole hole of the total surveillance nuts.
Putting all our faith in machines...whether they be bulldozers, smart bombs or algorithmic mimics of the human mind.........is STUPID. Machines are bits of metal and electrical connectors...computers can be very useful at gathering massive amounts of data....but let's use our native intelligence.
IF YOU ARE SURVEILLING EVERYONE, SPYING EVERYWHERE AND ACCUMULATING MEGA BITES OF IRRELEVANCE...you don't have the analytic strength to accurately analize anything. What's important gets buried in the trivial. But here's a brainwave!!!! Get AI to do the analysis.
Saves on having to create intelligence jobs....and everyone knows our man made algorithms are smarter than people.
No way people can outsmart them.
Whatever we think of Hamas......its starting to look like they might be strategic, determined, and .....let's admit it....rather brilliant. Too bad we had to kill them rather than pay for their university education.
Really Andrew? You're falling for this? Many sources are already speculating, with persuasive logic that was no failure but intentional to give Israel reason to attack Hamas. I'm disappointed that you don't include this as part of your assessment.
Thank you for this slice of the wonderful Cockburn clarity to weigh against all the evidence-free speculation and BS.
"The system knows everything about him: where he went, who his friends are, who his family is, what keeps him busy, what he said and what he published. Using artificial intelligence, the system analyzes behavior"
I would not be the least bit surprised if the above "behavior analysis" is literally as stupid as sucking in all the target's Tweets (and his family/friends) and "analyzing" them. How else do you get easily consumable data about behavior? Location info doesn't tell you behavior, only location. Call activity and transcripts only tell you what the subject wants you to hear, if they know they are under surveillance - and I am 100% HAMAS people know they are under surveillance.
This kind of thing is typical ivory tower/nerd nonsense.
Ex NYT: “Hamas took advantage of that weakness by sending aerial drones to attack the cellular towers that transmitted signals to and from the surveillance system, according to the officials and also drone footage circulated by Hamas on Saturday and analyzed by The New York Times.”
“Without cellular signals, the system was useless. Soldiers stationed in control rooms behind the front lines did not receive alarms that the fence separating Gaza and Israel had been breached, and could not watch video showing them where the Hamas attackers were bulldozing the barricades. “
They might have understood that this situation was unsustainable if they used the Human Intelligence that Bob Dylan offered us a long time ago, "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose".
This report certainly lends credence to my oft pronounced outrageous claim that 'artificial intelligence does not exist'. Makes me feel like a prophetess, but I'd best be careful....I don't want to fall down the same narcissist mole hole of the total surveillance nuts.
Putting all our faith in machines...whether they be bulldozers, smart bombs or algorithmic mimics of the human mind.........is STUPID. Machines are bits of metal and electrical connectors...computers can be very useful at gathering massive amounts of data....but let's use our native intelligence.
IF YOU ARE SURVEILLING EVERYONE, SPYING EVERYWHERE AND ACCUMULATING MEGA BITES OF IRRELEVANCE...you don't have the analytic strength to accurately analize anything. What's important gets buried in the trivial. But here's a brainwave!!!! Get AI to do the analysis.
Saves on having to create intelligence jobs....and everyone knows our man made algorithms are smarter than people.
No way people can outsmart them.
Whatever we think of Hamas......its starting to look like they might be strategic, determined, and .....let's admit it....rather brilliant. Too bad we had to kill them rather than pay for their university education.
Very good.
Really Andrew? You're falling for this? Many sources are already speculating, with persuasive logic that was no failure but intentional to give Israel reason to attack Hamas. I'm disappointed that you don't include this as part of your assessment.