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Insurance Companies Could Start Tracking Social Media Accounts To Determine Premiums

Insurance companies will likely start looking at social media accounts to determine premiums for their customers, according to “Fox & Friends” contributor Kurt Knutsson.

“There’s very little of anything that’s stopping insurance company representatives from scouring through history of all of our online posts,” Knutsson said Friday.

“A warning this morning to really pay attention to what’s on there from … well your cigar smoking and skydiving photos might want to come down. Anything that shows risky behavior, you can go ahead and look in the history of your posts, you know, you don’t want to show yourself smoking if you smoke. You don’t want to show yourself having what would seem like a rambunctious time with alcohol.”

Knutsson said activities like extreme sports without a helmet or other high risk behavior could end up costing people money.

“Engaging in high risk sports such as for skydiving, especially without a helmet … you want to make sure you have your helmet on if you do that. Any sort of reckless behavior that you know inherently would freak your mother out would be the same thing that’s going to freak out the insurance company,” he said.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/22/insurance-companies-social-media-premiums/

Will Artificial Intelligence End Up Being Really Stupid?

The pro-AI hype surrounding it offers human-level intelligence, but the reality may be far less. AI may find narrow areas of application, but no amount of knowledge can lead to wisdom. ⁃ TN Editor

It’s hard to go anywhere these days without coming across some mention of artificial intelligence (AI). You hear about it, you read about it and it’s hard to find a presentation deck (on any subject) that doesn’t mention it. There is no doubt there is a lot of hype around the subject.

While the hype does increase awareness of AI, it also facilitates some pretty silly activities and can distract people from much of the real progress being made. Disentangling the reality from the more dramatic headlines promises to provide significant advantages for investors, business people and consumers alike.

Artificial intelligence has gained its recent notoriety in large part due to high profile successes such as IBM’s Watson winning at Jeopardy and Google’s AlphaGo beating the world champion at the game “Go”. Waymo, Tesla and others have also made great strides with self-driving vehicles. The expansiveness of AI applications was captured by Richard Waters in the Financial Times [here}: “If there was a unifying message underpinning the consumer technology on display [at the Consumer Electronics Show] … it was: ‘AI in everything’.”

https://www.technocracy.news/will-artificial-intelligence-end-up-being-really-stupid/

Salvini’s League Party doubles its support while 5Star’s popularity plummets

According to the results of a nationwide poll popular support for Matteo Salvini’s League party has doubled since the party’s electoral victory one year ago.

When Italy held its national elections on March 4th last year, the League party garnered about 17 percent of the nation’s vote. Today, that figure has almost doubled to 33.9 percent of Italian voters who express that they favor the League party over any other. This makes Salvini’s League party Italy’s preferred party by a noteworthy margin.

In a far off second and third place are the Democratic Party (PD) and the League’s ruling coalition partner, the Five Star Movement (M5S), who have the fidelity of 21.1 percent and 21 percent of the Italian vote, respectively. Last poll results mark the very first time since last year’s elections that the Democratic Party has more popular support than the Five Star Movement, even if only by one tenth of a percentage point.

After taking home 32.22 percent of the vote in the 2018 national election, M5S has endured a constant decline in their popularity, losing almost 11 percentage points in that time span.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/03/salvinis-league-party-doubles-its-support-while-5stars-popularity-plummets/