Uvalde was utilizing an AI-based surveillance program called Social Sentinel that monitored students’ social media & identified individuals at risk of violence https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10853241/Uvalde-school-district-monitoring-students-social-media-pages-threats-against-staff-site.html
Yes, and because marketing hype is a hell of a drug, the chances of every damn program labeled "AI" getting mistaken for a conscious entity goes up, up, up.
This coincides with reductionist and alienating views of what it means to be human, and for that matter sapient. It's weird to see chatbot programs being uplifted by some, that at the same time see their fellow human beings are as "meat computers" or whatever else sounds edgy and cool that day.
It’s weird to see chatbot programs being uplifted by some, that at the same time see their fellow human beings are as “meat computers” or whatever else sounds edgy and cool that day.
Yes, and because marketing hype is a hell of a drug, the chances of every damn program labeled "AI" getting mistaken for a conscious entity goes up, up, up.
This coincides with reductionist and alienating views of what it means to be human, and for that matter sapient. It's weird to see chatbot programs being uplifted by some, that at the same time see their fellow human beings are as "meat computers" or whatever else sounds edgy and cool that day.
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