Microsoft Research guy commented on how if there were a breakthrough in privacy-preserving tech, there would be more use of AI
Applications of AI to things like the huge datasets of medical records are bottlenecked by privacy issues.
Lots of old research that was done, it has since been found that although no one knew it at the time, current tech can see that a person in one research group was the same person as in a different research group.
Didn't know it at the time either, but scans of eyes can be used now to predict with some accuracy various thigns:
