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When your smart home predicts your behavior better than you do

My smart thermostat learned my schedule so well that it knows when I'm not coming home before I do, and that level of prediction about my own life feels unsettling.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Machine learning systems are developing intimate knowledge of your patterns that exceeds your own self-awareness.

Ideas that help explain it
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