Data privacy in the age of chatbots

In his latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, Yuval Noah Harari has shared an interesting insight from Geoffrey Hinton, a former vice president and engineering fellow at Google and widely regarded as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI), which in hindsight appears to be quite strategic. Hinton says that Google’s decades of offering free services to users was never really about altruism. It was simply about one thing: data.