AI and Facial Recognition are coming to routine traffic stops. The technology is also being pushed for use in conjunction with drones, to track and identify people even in hard to reach places, deep in forests, for example. Oh, and some of the same companies producing this technology are also investing in “privacy centered” decentralized...
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AI IS LEARNING YOUR JOB
Artificial Intelligence is being commercialized at an unprecedented rate. But as AI does more and more, questions about who is profiting and who is losing are becoming more important. On the one hand, many AI initiatives are designed to assist with all kinds of tasks. Their use can increase efficiency and speed business and creative...
YOUR AI LOVER DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU (AND THAT’S WHY IT’S SO SEDUCTIVE)
For anyone who has been toying in the metaverse, in augmented reality, or just plain old text-messaging, with an “AI friend,” this may provide a cold reminder of reality: API code for programmers designing “chat friends.” The code in this case queries “davinci,” a neural network powered natural language AI system developed by OpenAI, currently...
SELLING THE SYNTHETIC UNREAL
Should people care whether conversations they have with others are real, as long as they’re “authentic”? Should people worry about pervasive surveillance at their jobs, in their vehicles, and even their homes, if the surveillance is providing more efficiency? Should people strive to have real experiences, when illusory ones can engage and satisfy, and even...
HOW BIG TECH MAINTAINS ITS MONOPOLY
A handful of Big Tech companies currently control the lion’s share of e-commerce, web advertising, social media, cloud services and more. Everyone knows the players: Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Twitter. They make more the GDP of many countries, escape fair taxation (ie. levels average citizens in many places pay), and manipulate policy debates....
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