Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems
“Emotional AI’s essential problem is that we can’t definitively say what emotions are. “Put a room of psychologists together and you will have fundamental disagreements,” says McStay. “There is no baseline, agreed definition of what emotion is.”
Nor is there agreement on how emotions are expressed. Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and in 2019 she and four other scientists came together with a simple question: can we accurately infer emotions from facial movements alone? “We read and summarised more than 1,000 papers,” Barrett says. “And we did something that nobody else to date had done: we came to a consensus over what the data says.”
If you’re buying a new PC then you probably need to read this:
TL:DR The Recall feature screenshots your screen very regularly & stores it.
Everything goes into the database the AI that analyses the screenshots creates & the database has NO expiry date.
This includes passwords, financial data, websites visited, private messages sent etc.
To quote the article “the security has holes you could dive an aircraft thru”
To Halt or Not to Halt? That Is the Question by Cristian Calude, 2024
Can mathematics be done by computers only? Can software testing be fully automated? Can you write an anti-virus program which never needs any updates? Can we make the Internet perfectly secure? Your guess is correct: the answer to each question is negative.
Fascinating article from IEEE Spectrum that discusses the carbon footprint of software and how we can both measure and improve it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-software
The benefit is not only less carbon, but following some of the principles that are outlined can decrease costs and improve efficiency.
The article references tools such as Firefox Profiler and Ecograder as well as an open source Sustainable Software Engineering course.
I so much wish the goals for software were performance first, then features.
It's so hard to understand that apps are over ~100.000.000 bytes heavy when my first hard drive was ~20.000.000 bytes (where I had a hundred programs, including drawing and animation apps) and my first computer had 3.583 bytes of RAM free.
Slack is 289 million bytes. Mostly to share a sentence of text. I just can't
Adam Osborne is a forgotten giant of computing. Steve Jobs first true rival and a friend. A man who struggled with his identity: was he British, American or Indian?
In my new column 'The Crazy Ones' over at Every, you'll find a full history of Adam Osborne and the rise and fall of Osborne Computers.
The number of outlets prepared to pay for longform tech history journalism is tiny. So please do read, enjoy and spread the word... #computing#history#histodons
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez #Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in #server farms to illustrate some of the diverse #environmental impacts of #datastorage.
"The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes"
I hate #medicine. I dunno why I even became a doctor. Must've been due to parental pressure. I love #astronomy & also have an interest in astronomy software/apps (& software in general). Problem is I dunno how to #code.
Is pursuing a degree in #compsci worth it in the age of LLMs? Or should I just get an astro degree & depend on "AI" to write codes for me?