If “artificial intelligence” is already so good, so attractive, so friendly, so communicative, it can only get even better! There are many people working on this. Even with unexpected goals. …
Technological metaphysics (a note on “artificial intelligence”)
The ChatGPT app gained 100,000,000 (100 million) active users in just two months from its release: it is a world record for the speed at which a technological application has …
Make me a summary
Amazon has long been notorious for its harsh anti-union practices and the working conditions that prevail in its warehouses. Its latest achievement? According to an internal company document that leaked, …
AI emotions
Her is a 2013 film that is formally categorized as “science fiction” but perhaps should be considered technologically dystopian. The protagonist Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) develops an intense emotional, bodiless …
Robotic melancholy
When it premiered, in 2016, it cut a big swath… “Her” company, Hanson Robotics, based in Hong Kong, specializes in high social intelligence machines. As self-presented on its website: Robots …
AI pets
First, watch the two-minute video below, and then we’ll discuss a few things. What did you see? 90% of you thought “another Japanese crap” – right? An artificial intelligence pet… …
p.c. labor
The so-called remote work (we have explained that we prefer the term “work from home”, in order to get rid of the propaganda of idyllic descriptions of the type “work …
where is your mind?
The inventor is an american, studied at Harvard. His name is Han Bicheng, and his start-up BrainCo. His invention is sensors that by resting on the forehead “catch electrical signals” …
predictive algorithms
The canadian company bluedot, founded in 2013, offers communicable disease mapping services. According to founder Kamran Khan, the sars pandemic in 2002-04 was the reason for starting this business. This …
Latent language…
Eye movement, hand trembling, body posture, contradictions in narratives and much more, are elements of the live communication that can show (or hide) the sincerity. The codification of these elements, …
constructions of realities.
How easy is it for everyone to create their own reality? However easy it used to be in the past, the possibilities offered by the new technologies of the 4th industrial revolution make it even easier – and more “fun”. As the means change and evolve, the end remains the same; to create and maintain ideologies. Here are two of the many tools that can be used by anyone to create “fake news” and / or “fake faces”.
The human face-lessness of big data
Do the data have a human face? Only in the minds of their creators. Maybe the expression just wants to highlight the positives discovery and exploitation of this new raw material, of information, have for us humans. Or not; perhaps it’s the crude interpretation that derives from the digitization process itself: that the body is just a volume of information. That relations are a complex of networks and flows; that thoughts are electrical signals. Can anyone disagree with the experts? “Why, all this is scientifically proven!”