Category: Dehumanization
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Morality, ethics, Apple Store...
FACING a moral quandary and want to do the right thing? Well, there's now an app for that. Ethical Decision Making, as the iPhone app is helpfully named, doesn't need the details of your problem or the options you're considering. It simply asks you to consider each solution and rate it from five standpoints: utility,…
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Death penalty - We are all inmates...
Terminally ill people who want to die can take drugs to end their lives peacefully. Ailing pets are put down humanely every day. Clearly, the technology exists to bring about a quick and painless death. Why, then, do executions by lethal injection sometimes become troubling spectacles? The death in Oklahomaof Clayton D. Lockett, amid struggling…
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Automated cars. Manual people.
Volvo has started testing autonomous cars on public roads, making it one of the first automakers to put fully autonomous vehicles in the hands of consumers. The Swedish company is selecting people to participate in a new project called Drive Me, which is endorsed by the Swedish government. Customers will drive cars equipped with Volvo’s…
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Virtual eyeballs. Wrong science.
The lenses of the new "wearable eyes," called AgencyGlass, display a pair of virtual eyeballs that can move back and forth, up and down. They help the wearer maintain proper eye contact with others by using an external camera to detect faces and a gyroscope and accelerometer to sense motion. They also blink, and glance…
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Facebook, face detection, our lost soul...
Facebook researchers have built DeepFace, an algorithm that can pick a face out of a crowd with 97.25 per cent accuracy. That means it is almost as good as we are at recognizing a face. (1) But is that correct? Can this be correct? Is our face simply a pattern of lines and colours? Do…
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