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GReedDiamond

(5,313 posts)
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 01:05 AM Nov 2017

So I was just on Youtube listening to The Byrds performing...

...a live version of "Lover of the Bayou" from 1970, and had thought, after that, I'd search for The Mamas & Papas song Twelve Thirty.

I looked over to the right side of the Youtube page, where they have links to other stuff, and I saw:

"Recommended for you" The Mamas & Papas Twelve Thirty.

How did "they" know?!

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So I was just on Youtube listening to The Byrds performing... (Original Post) GReedDiamond Nov 2017 OP
russian bots know everything lol nt msongs Nov 2017 #1
Repeat after me: "Russian is Our Friend"...nt GReedDiamond Nov 2017 #3
One of us, one of us, one of fleabiscuit Nov 2017 #2
Artificial Intelligence leads to the ability... GReedDiamond Nov 2017 #4
LOL. fleabiscuit Nov 2017 #5
All I can say is... GReedDiamond Nov 2017 #6
BTW here is "Twelve Thirty" by The Mamas & The Papas... GReedDiamond Nov 2017 #7

GReedDiamond

(5,313 posts)
4. Artificial Intelligence leads to the ability...
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 01:28 AM
Nov 2017

...to remotely read my mind, before I entered any search terms?

OK.

I guess.

Nuthin there to worry bout.

fleabiscuit

(4,542 posts)
5. LOL.
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 01:57 AM
Nov 2017

Well I suppose Google isn't quite reading minds yet, but their algorithms are getting pretty good. After 19 years of using the search engine we are on pretty intimate terms by now. I'd hate to have all my ones and zeros it has stored from me wiped out.

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