Algorithms Galore: The Musk Saga Continues (1 Viewer)

[Thales750]

To me the "fire in a crowded theater" doctrine is relevant. TikTok "Challenges" have been the cause of hundreds of injuries and many deaths because someone posts a challenge and some lemming dives off a cliff in response.

Well hopefully they did it before having children. Natural selection and all. You would think this would go right along with your perspective on evolution.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

If it is sold, are you not buying the “algorithm” that is TikTok? If you are buying the TikTok algorithm, then is the algorithm expected to be changed by the new owners? ie it is no longer TikTok - it is now TikTokUSA.

The flaw in your logic is that if a person with permanent resident alien status - who also happens to be Chinese - starts up TikTok USA, a Chinese person still has the algorithm and any implied code. It is NOT an OpenSource product.

Movies and books only lead actual science by a few decades at best. What the human mind can envision, it strives to create.

Including the Star Trek flip-top communicator and the modern flip-phone. And the idea of a device like a medical tri-corder that can take usable heart rhythm patterns, record them, and forward to your doctor. And there are devices you can plug in to the USB-C port (or use BlueTooth) to become a sensing extension of your phone. Yeah, the future is here. Arthur C Clarke predicted comm satellites in the mid-20th century and we had them by the 3/4 mark of that century. Star Trek theorized "warp drive" as a way to travel faster than light and Prof. Alcubierre of Mexico derived the theoretical equations to allow it. The reason we don't have FTL travel isn't a matter of scientific impossibility - it is the engineering that takes the theory and turns it into practical reality.