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!”
Automatic service quality
A rumor has it that at the peak of the “hot autumn” strike wave in northern italy, Agnelli, the owner of fiat, imagined, wished or wanted to hope for a …
Keep your eyes open!
The south korean state/capital complex quickly and effectively took advantage of the covid-19 opportunity. What is certain is that from a technological point of view, it belongs to the global …
Keep your distances!
Or else a great disaster will fall upon you! Every aspect of everyday life can be mechanized… and if you/we do not like this, you/we must find what to do and how, without the illusion: “nooo, wayyy, they can’t do that.”
Counting beans
How many people make a “crowd”? Ten? Fifty? A hundred? Based on experience, we may be able to distinguish a crowd from a group of friends, but if no auxiliary …
Delicate tasks
As for its looks, the german designed and IBM programmed CIMON-2 (the smiley plastic balloon on the left) does not claim any prizes. Though, it has a rich emotional (and …
Dude, you trod on me!
The russian-made android robot Fedor is not the first automaton to be found on the International Space Station (ISS). But it is the first one that emitted a “distress signal” …
Your robotic friend
Physiognomists will hang up their boots! If 600 different facial expressions can be engineered in the year 2019, then in 2029 (it is not even in a century, eh?!) how will we distinguish who is who?
My God! What have I done?…
And you may find yourself / Living in a shotgun shack / And you may find yourself / In another part of the world / And you may find yourself …
Collaboration above all…
The announcement itself is undeniably dystopian. Last November, the American DARPA (who else?) announced that it had successfully conducted a live-fire exercise of collaborative robotic weapons—airborne, ground and maritime—without real-time …
artificial intelligence: the Golem of the 4th industrial revolution
You might remember it, or maybe not. There is a method in statistics, quite simple and widespread, so much so that it is often taught even in high school. It …
singularity: technological fetishism and political economy in the 21st century
The concept of the “singularity” refers to the moment when technological evolution will result in producing an artificial super-intelligence, which will bring about unimaginable changes in human civilization. Some futurologists, …