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Amazon Is Using My Grocery Purchases to Sell Me Prescription Drugs
The weirdest thing happened to me recently. I ordered some groceries on Amazon Fresh. When you check out, Amazon recommends more things you might like to buy, usually related to your purchase.
But this time, Amazon offered up “Treatments for High Cholesterol” along with a link for an Amazon One Medical consultation as well as links to prescription medications.
That’s weird, because my doctor and my wife are the only people who know about my cholesterol numbers. They’re pretty good, too! But there are certainly data points, including my age, my food preferences, and my past purchases, maybe even news stories I’ve read elsewhere on the web, that might suggest I’d be a good candidate for a statin, the type of cholesterol-lowering medication Amazon recommended to me.
And while I’m used to Amazon recommending books I might like or cleaning products I might want to buy again, it felt pretty creepy to push prescription drugs in my direction.
Simply seeing Amazon target me for a health condition draws attention to the unnerving amount of information Amazon has gleaned from my online activity — as well as the fact that Amazon is a health care company, one that can collect troves of data and push customers toward treatments accordingly.
Google Is Training AI to ‘Hear’ When You’re Sick. Here’s How It Works.
Google’s AI arm is reportedly tapping into “bioacoustics” — a field that blends a combination of biology and sounds that, in part, help researchers gain insights on how pathogen presence affects human sound.
As it turns out, our sounds convey tell-tale information about our well-being.
According to a Bloomberg report, the search-engine giant built an AI model that uses sound signals to “predict early signs of disease.”
In places where there is difficulty accessing quality healthcare, this technology can step in as an alternative where users need nothing but their smartphone’s microphone.
It was trained on 300 million, two-second audio samples that include coughs, sniffles, sneezes and breathing patterns.
Google’s bioacoustics-based AI model is called HeAR (Heath Acoustic Representations)…
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