BIG TECH’S BIG ROLE IN THE PANDEMIC BATTLE
The world faces a crisis of unprecedented proportions as COVID-19 (aka, coronavirus) rapidly spreads across the globe. As the numbers of infected rise, Facebook, Google, and other tech companies have come forward to lend their expertise and resources. Here are some of...
THE ETHICS OF AI: IoT & ROBOTICS: (Part Two) Ethics & Culture
Robotics and AI bring up questions of ethics. The ethics of AI can be illustrated with the example of Microsoft’s Tay. In the 16 hours between its first message and its last, Tay sent over 96,000 tweets. Similar to Siri and Alexa, Tay was designed to provide an...
THE ETHICS OF AI: (Part One) IoT & ROBOTICS
Part One: Is it Possible to Murder a Robot? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most profound technologies of our time. It is in the “brains” of our autonomous vehicles, the strategies which guard our homes, the advice for what stocks to trade, and in the...