Richard Fernandez article moving some of the information discussed here into the general public-
"…the "free" highway can empty the contents of billions of minds on the planet into their machine learning systems. Machine learning is a field of computer science that gives computers the ability to "learn" (i.e., progressively improve performance on a specific task) with data, without being explicitly programmed. Data is the key. At the dawn of the field of artificial intelligence its founders thought achieving machine vision would only take a summer. They were off by half a century. Some evidence suggests that many major AI breakthroughs have actually been limited by the availability of high-quality training datasets, without which algorithmic advances would have nothing to work upon.
By wiring everybody in, they'll get the datasets, and thus they hope they'll get the AI.
But overtly collected datasets are only the beginning. Getting into people's minds is the top priority for anyone who wants to really get at the information. Facebook has a team of engineers in the mysterious Building 8 working on a brain-computer interface that will let you type with just your mind without invasive implants. The team plans to use optical imaging to scan your brain a hundred times per second to detect you speaking silently in your head, and translate it into text."
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/suppose-there-really-were-a-plot-to-take-over-the-world/