I surrendered my life to algorithms for a week 🤖
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In an experiment designed to better understand how algorithms work and influence our lives, I let a handful of algorithms determine my clothing, food, activities, movies and music for a whole week.
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0:00 Intro
1:05 Clothes
3:42 Food & activities
9:07 Movies
10:53 Music
11:29 Escape the algorithms
12:28 What I learned
13:49 Conclusion
#surrendered #life #algorithms #week
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the algorithm brought me here.
Mission succeed
Ok
It worked, I’m now a willing sheep experiment.
The society is so polarizing, maybe it is the best that let algorithms control everything. skynet is coming baby!
I am watching it
“It’s not that I don’t like the color “ means she doesn’t like the color 🤣🤣🤣
I can’t wait for the day when the algorithmic overlords just send me things before I know I need them.
Great video! Ideas you could similarly try:
–Apps for sharing everything: your car, your house, your time (watching pets, ride sharing).
–Anything fringe where people wonder: what’s it really like?
Algorithm successful because a few places have you for “life” now! 🤣😂
Cool concept for a video. Do you often feel like you’re living in an algorithm everyday? Is this the matrix? Follow the white rabbit.
You should do a Google only video, I think the algorithm would do better
1:54 I like how the c|net logo is just written plainly on that whiteboard with a red marker.😅
Connect with the people and the people will take care of the algorithm👌🏾
Hey everyone! Thanks so much for watching. If you’ve got any ideas for other TECH-speriments you’d like to see me attempt, please let me know down below 🙂
This video was so fun, makes me want to try it.
In before the algorithm makes this pop off
This was fun — a little advertise‑y, but interesting nonetheless. I use Apple Music and although I didn’t like say half of the songs they recommend, I’ve discovered artists I’m obsessed with thanks to them.
Seems algorithms are great to shake up a routine if you want some variety, but aren’t good as a daily driver.
Based on the spots you went to, it looks like you live darn close to me in southern California, lol..
Google’s algorithms are a lot better. Try Google TV and YouTube for movies and videos, Google Maps for food and activities and last YouTube Music for… well music.
Clothes: he picked the wrong ✂️ cut. Slim
I Watch a lot of cnet stuff this is the first time I’ve commented because I really liked this video. Would like more from Jesse keep it up
How very interesting
The creeps at CNET are just getting us prepped.
When CNET meets Buzzfeed!
Most algorithms aren’t to help you as much as they are to help push advertised products to you. TikTok has a better system, user centric vs advertiser and platform profit motivated.
Oh, slow your “woke” bias, CNET. The LA riots weren’t an “Uprising”, they were riots. Thousands of people were injured by the rioters, dozens killed, a billion dollars in damage. Most of the people harmed were minorities, and much of the damage was to private businesses. That’s not an “Uprising”.
This is a great video! I’ve wanted to try something like this for a long time. Why should I make any decisions about my life-basics when a computer can do it for me? Especially clothing and food and basic mundane stuff like that.
Thanks for doing this, it let us know how a person may feel about doing it. I think you should do more things like this.
I find your videos to be some of the most interesting ones on this channel — they are always something a little different that I have not seen before. Well done!
So, how much electricity had to be produced for the computers to run your algorithms? How much energy, carbon had to be released to produce those computers? How much energy, and resources had to be used to train your algorithm, and then to correct them? LOLLL You get the point? Isn’t, probably, more efficient to just use a darn brain for such silly things? I know, for some, it is a difficulty to use a brain. Very difficult! Where are all the green tree-hugging advocates? “Keep calm and brain storm.”
This is lame, he literally is relying on only a couple “algorithms” and acting super judgy as if he has NeVeR made a decision based on an ad that was generated for the bubble in which he lives. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even know what an algorithm is or how they are designed. Algorithms are only as smart as the data handed to them, if YOU make stupid decisions so will an algorithm based on YOUR data!
You just ruined the whole experiment 6:28
Lost me with Yelp, which is toxic in its treatment of small businesses.
This could turn into some horrifying Black Mirror episode
But your choosing your food and where to go not the apps
nobody makes their own decision if you really think about it. algorithms today but word of mouth yesterday; it’s all just models really — we just seem to have cranked the tech models to 110% this time around with no end of stopping. brace yourselves.
This guy is good for CNET.
very surprised at the view discrepancy between this and the previous video
13M to 11K