individual is walking around with a virtual entourage of themselves so who they are on tuesday may be different than thursday and that applies to all of us. what i find interesting and grounds for hope is the work that you are doing, you re actually using technology to try to do something about this phenomenon. tell us a bit more about what you re up too. the decline in civility on the internet has become one of the most universally understood challenges that we face. the question that we asked ourselves is can we use machine learning. can we use artificial intelligence to make it easier for publishers to spot toxicity on the web. what is that exactly mean. you re saying you can identify through computer algorithms specific words and phrases that are hateful and angry? is that what you re saying. with artificial an intellige, it s only as effective as the amount of data you have and how annotated that data is.
it s probably not a big issue today. but we have to republican the same technologies are being used by government where revealing political leaning or sexual orientation can be a matter of life or death. so that s an important point. the russian government which is very media and tech savvy, as we know, can probably determine who where the political opposition would lie without anybody else saying anything. without anybody publishing an op-ed or attending a demonstration. exactly. just based on your music play lists or the books you have read. even if you have never read anything related to politics. computer algorithms can turn these seemingly innocent data into accurate predictions of your intimate traits. michael kozinski, pleasure to have you on. thank you, sir. next on gps, some frequent
dow surged to another record yesterday stopping just 25 points short of hitting 20,000. cnbc s his today bojesen joins us live from london. louisa what are analysts attributing this rise to and how long is it going to last? the trump factor taking place. we ve got people hoping for less regulations. we ve got market momentum still coming out of the financial crisis where we haven t seen people properly getting back and invested in the way that they were although we have been at these highs for quite some time and in fact we ve been hitting the highs since before the financial crisis as well. but not the 20,000 mark on the dow. and we re there. i mean we re almost there. it s almost a given that we re going to go through this level. and especially because a lot of computer algorithms will be set off as we approach that level closer and closer, so a lot of people are anticipating that it could happen. it s a proxy for the health of the u.s. economy although many are saying looks like t
thank you joining us on set. jacob talked about the 650,000 e-mails. it was based on computer algorithms and the way they have done sorting as the way we see it on this network. the presidential trifecta out for hillary clinton. up next, we ll head to new hampshire for a preview of the rally. we ll talk to jeanne shaheen about the neck and neck race in the state. stick around. hey, is this our turn? honey.our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there.
particularly all of the companies in our indexes, are looking toward you can hear them talk about where is the expansion and they are all talking about china. there is some concern if china slows down, what happens to them. right. volume is very high as well today. the nyse composite at 3.4 billion shares changing hands. that s running 90% above the august average. this is not mom and pop moving their 401(k)s. these are fast computer algorithms moving into the market, adapting to minor moves and moving out again. so much of this is about china. we ve been watching china for a while. alison mentioned the manufacturing report that came out on friday. what doesn t china step in. china has tried to step in.