“Could your fridge sense that you’re depressed, and stop you from binging on the chocolate ice cream? Rana el Kaliouby, a Cambridge- and MIT-trained scientist and leader in facial-recognition technology, is concerned about how computers are affecting the emotional lives of her two small children.”
“In ReForm, a new franchise from The Creators Project, we meet the artists creating and re-appropriating the latest technologies in various areas of creative expression. Big poop and art are converging in electrifying ways. In our new video, The Creators Project talks to data artists— R.”
Read: [Video] ReForm | Data Becomes Art in Immersive Visualizations
“One of the emerging trends in the world of photography is the idea of automated recognition and tagging of things found in photographs. Flickr can now suggest autotags for your photos, and Google’s new Photos service lets you search through your unlabeled photos using advanced image recognition.”
Read: Cameras of the Future Will Be Able to Identify Things They See
“A computer is a clock with benefits. They all work the same, doing second-grade math, one step at a time: Tick, take a number and put it in box one. Tick, take another number, put it in box two.”
“Earlier this week, Google Maps suffered the latest in series of embarrassing occurrences. It was discovered that when searching for “n***a house” and “n***a king,” Maps returned a surprising location: the White House. A search for “slut’s house” led to an Indiana women’s dorm.”
“It seems that student privacy is trendy right now. At least among elected officials. Congressional aides are scrambling to write bills that one-up each other in showcasing how tough they are on protecting youth.”
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“Flickr is drawing heat for the auto-tagging feature it launched earlier this month. The “advanced image recognition” system has been making some pretty embarrassing and offensive mistakes, including tagging a portrait of a black man with the word “ape.”
Read: Flickr Fixing ‘Racist’ Auto-Tagging Feature After Black Man Mislabeled ‘Ape’
“Genetically modified organisms hold a lot of promise for creating hardier crops and faster growing fish, but even supporters are concerned about invasive organisms running wild.”
Read: Scientists develop new ‘kill switch’ to destroy genetically-modified organisms that escape