Tag: Technology
Sean Li explains the moderation of audio content on a social network
Content shared on social platforms can be non-conspicuous, but it can also cause issues and even comprise hate speech, necessitating moderation. Thus far, companies regulate their content largely on their…
Dr. Howard: “We should not gender” robots
by Thorsten Koch MA, PgDip The TWIML AI Podcast this week welcomed Dr. Ayanna Howard, a roboticist and Dean of the College of Engineering at Ohio State University. Her recent…
IMPORTANCE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BRAZIL
ALVES, Karoline Frazão; DE ANDRADE, SuelinI Undergraduate student in Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology at the Federal University UFPR Palotina campus;II Undergraduate student in Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology at Federal University…
A comment relating to the YouTube video ‘The Age of A.I.’
Having watched the video, I am deeply disappointed. There are examples of the use of AI, including a recreation of two existing persons. I will refer to avatars in this…
AI and Human Failure: Blaming the Machine? | Brief
Another example of the principle known as diffusion of responsibility: blaming the machine. This is not about airplane autopilots but of machine intelligence and automatization which are made use of…
83 percent of Germans use online messengers | GermanPolicy.com
Almost every 16 to 24 year-old in Germany uses online messenger services. This is the result of a survey commissioned by the Federal Network Agency. The most popular service in…
New standards for intelligence service | GermanPolicy.com
by Thorsten Koch Patrick Sensburg (CDU), a member of parliament and security expert, supports the SPD’s demands to appoint a Bundestag Federal Commissioner for intelligence matters. According to a decision…
Mass surveillance abroad by the BND legally inadequate | GermanPolicy.com
by Thorsten Koch The surveillance practice by the federal intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), regarding telecommunications by foreigners, violates fundamental rights. This has been decided by the Federal Constitutional Court. The…
Smartphone Tracking, or Contact Tracing | Context
Digital contact tracing creates location trails allowing for a supervising instance to know, in hindsight, whether two people were in proximity at the same time. Many smartphone apps only function…
Muslims on the Internet: The UK Example – The Islamic Ummah from Egroups to Electronic Pilgrimage | Context
Discussion forums were the first electronic Muslim spaces of communication. Nowadays, religious texts, counselling, interpretation and news dominate the Islamic presence on the internet, while extremist websites subsist in different…
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