مساء راحة البال،
استغل مجموعة من الباحثين من جامعة كيوتو جملة من الفتوحات العلمية الحاصلة في مجالي التعلم العميق والشبكات التوليدية لينشئوا صورًا فوتوغرافية رقمية مما يتخيله المرء، محولين هذه الصور من ذهن المرء إلى الشاشة بنسبة دقة قدرها 99%. ويعمل النظام الذي طوروه على كلٍ من الأغراض المادية التي ينظر لها المرء أو تلك التي يتخيلها في ذهنه. في الوقت الحالي، لا زالت الصور التي يولّدها النظام…
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‘Grand Theft Auto’ Got Me Through Quarantine
How playing a violent video game brought me peace
Products like Clubhouse and Twitter’s “Super Follows” offer a new kind of engagement
New digital media products are focusing on low-volume, high-attention rather than high-volume, low-attention feeds.
Twitter this week laid out a roadmap for future products and features. The new feature that got the most attention was Super Follows, which will let users charge for premium tweets or content, perhaps including newsletters (Twitter's recent aquisition of Revue, a newsletter platform that competes with Substack). While Twitter didn't mention this, I could also envision Super Follows complementing Twitter Spaces, its new Clubhouse-like audio chat product.
Wheter or not it takes off, Super Follows signifies a shift in Twitter's strategy - and points to a broader shift in digital media. It shows that Twitter sees a future in business models other than targeted advertising and in formats other than the algorithmic feed. Specifically, it shows Twitter looking to facilitate direct, intentional relationships between creators and their most loyal fans.
People’s facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time
Facial recognition isn’t just for verifying a person’s identity. In recent years, researchers and startups have focused on other ways to apply the technology, like emotion recognition, which tries to read facial expressions to understand what a person is feeling.
For instance, Find Solution AI, a company based in Hong Kong that was recently featured in CNN Business, is selling its technology to schools and colleges, where it scans students’ faces and monitors their feelings in virtual classrooms. Theoretically, systems like these could detect whether children are paying attention or expressing frustration that indicates difficulty with learning the class material.
Academics and A.I. ethics researchers, however point out that this technology relies on questionable science and that there are serious ethical concerns around who the technology is used to surveil.
Kate Crawford, co-founder of the AI Now Institute and senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, pushed back on Find Solution AI’s claims that its technology could tell what children were feeling.
Find Solution AI, and most other emotion recognition startups, base their technology on the work of Paul Ekman, a psychologist who published popular work on the similarities between facial expressions around the world and popularized the idea of “seven universal emotions.” Actor Tim Roth even played a dramatized version of Ekman in the Fox drama Lie to Me.
That research has not translated well into the real world. A TSA program that trained agents to spot terrorists using Ekman’s work found little scientific basis, didn’t result in arrests, and fueled racial profiling, according to reports from the Government Accountability Office and the ACLU.
A meta-review of 1,000 studies found that the science tying our facial expressions to our emotions isn’t entirely universal. People make the expected facial expression to match their emotional state only 20% to 30% of the time, the researchers said.
But this technology is still being pushed on those who don’t have the power to refuse it. Children in virtual classrooms, job candidates performing virtual interviews, Amazon workers with cameras on them while they deliver packages, and even on people being questioned by police.
“We need to scrutinize why entities are using faulty technology to make assessments about character on the basis of physical appearance in the first place,” researchers from AI Now wrote in their 2019 report.
هذه التدوينة برعاية شبكة المال والأعمال السوداء؛ وهي شبكة ضمن شبكات منصة المعلومات السوداء (BIPNs). وهذه الشبكة تهتم بسوق المال والأعمال، ويغطيّ محتوى الموقع المجالات التالية: التجارة والأعمال، والتسويق والمبيعات والإدارة والعقارات وتقييم الشركات.
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هل نموذج الذكاء الاصطناعي GPT-3 عنصريّ تجاه المسلمين؟ الإجابة المختصرة: نعم.
إذا قمت بإدخال نصٍ أوليّ يذكر المسلمين في مُولِّد…
The underlying problem here is not the [platform] rules themselves, but the fact that just a few, for-profit entities have such power over global speech and politics in the first place.
'Inside a Facebook ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ for Cat Drugs'
‘Inside a Facebook ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ for Cat Drugs’
‘“It’s like the Dallas Buyers Club, when patients couldn’t get the AIDS meds they needed in this country legally. That’s kind of what I like to think that we’re doing for cats,” said Robin Kintz, one of the founders of FIP Warriors.
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“That’s not how it’s supposed to be done,” Lyons said. She also questions the wisdom of cat rescues forking over so much money to save a single cat when there are so…
Go read this powerful OneZero investigation into a digital-focused cult Cults prey on lonely and desperate people looking to belong to something, and as people migrate a bigger portion of their lives online, sometimes all it takes is a small showing of support to net someone’s full trust.
