The Follower – an art project highlighting another way your data can be used to surveil you

Dries Depoorter's art project 'The Follower' is a clever use of publicly available video and image data and a fun glimpse into the how those "casual" Instagram shots are really taken. It's also a somewhat harrowing warning about what information us members of the public are unknowingly sharing in a world where tools can process … Continue reading The Follower – an art project highlighting another way your data can be used to surveil you →

Should artificial intelligences win art competitions?

Vice reports that the Colorado State Fair's fine art competition has been won by a person called Jason Allen, who submitted this AI-generated piece of art. I do quite like the picture, but, as you might expect, it's created a bit of uproar amongst some artists of a more traditional nature. One of the more … Continue reading Should artificial intelligences win art competitions? →

Should an AI’s opinion of your personality affect whether you get a job?

Source: Retorio At first glance, that question may feel like a perfect example of Betteridge's law of headlines, the adage which states that if a headline ends in a question mark then one can usually assume the answer is no. That might well be the case here, but it doesn't seem like it's stopping some … Continue reading Should an AI’s opinion of your personality affect whether you get a job? →

Help decide who self-driving cars should kill

Automated self-driving cars are surely on their way. Given the direction of technological development, this seems a safe enough prediction to make - at least when taking the coward's option of not specifying a time frame. A self-driving car is, after all, a data processor, and we like to think that we're getting better at dealing … Continue reading Help decide who self-driving cars should kill →

An AI beat the human world Go champion – is the end of the world nigh?

On March 15th 2016, the next event in the increasingly imminent robot takeover of the world took place. A computerised artificial intelligence known as "AlphaGo" beat a human at a board game, in a decisive 4:1 victory. This doesn't feel particularly new - after all, a computer called Deep Blue beat the world chess Champion … Continue reading An AI beat the human world Go champion – is the end of the world nigh? →