Following on from the recent More Predictions Coming True? post, ‘more predictions coming truer!’
See Shazam for People? in 2014 …
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More Predictions Coming True?
OK, I know this is blowing my own trumpet a bit but, frankly, this is getting desperate so maybe it’s time to take the gloves off and look at some of the emerging tech. ethics predictions I’ve made over the years and how they’re turning out …
Personal privacy:
- 2014: “A ‘Shazam for People’ recognition system will become available, able to identify anyone in the street and provide massive amounts of personal background information about them in real time” https://vicgrout.net/2014/08/20/shazam-for-people/ https://www.austinpublishinggroup.com/robotics-automation/fulltext/download.php?file=ajra-v1-id1001.pdf https://vicgrout.net/2015/08/23/the-prof-on-a-train-game/
- 2018 it’s starting: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5239767/The-Shazam-faces-99-67-accurate.html (sorry to cite the Daily Fascist) but also https://www.blippar.com/blog/2017/07/19/introducing-halos-bringing-facial-recognition-mainstream and https://vicgrout.net/2018/10/01/and-so-it-begins/
AI/Robot Sex:
- 2014 onwards: “AI will bring in a new generation of sex robots and it will be possible to simulate sex with any individual, even against their wishes: celebrities, ex-partners, people whose data you’ve captured in the street, your neighbour’s 12-year old daughter, etc. https://vicgrout.net/2014/11/10/the-ins-and-outs-of-robot-sex/ https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/robot-sex-ethics-and-morality-2090-9888-1000e104.php?aid=67397 https://www.shortlist.com/news/sex-robots-artificial-intelligence
- 2018 it’s happening: https://cloudclimax.co.uk/product/emma-the-sex-robot-tpe-with-full-artificial-intelligence/ https://vicgrout.net/2018/06/06/well-dont-say-you-werent-warned/
- 2019 it’s REALLY happening: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5yzpk/they-cant-stop-us-people-are-having-sex-with-3d-avatars-of-their-exes-and-celebrities?utm_source=vicetwitterus
“San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition“
Well, this is interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48276660
Something had to happen of course: we’ve been discussing this for years on this blog …
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Obviously, we weren’t going to walk straight in to a 1984 scenario: there’s always pre-ripples to any of these social upheavals.
But whether this turns out to be a liberal victory or a camouflaged route to alternate forms of surveillance remains to be seen. Watch this space …
You’re Not My Dad! (The Kettle Said So)
So what are the chances of a global, on-demand, real-time, publicly-accessible DNA database? (Or what are the chances of stopping it?)
The increasing simplicity and speed with which DNA testing can now be performed has already changed lives. Not only can simple issues of parenthood be resolved (sometimes disproved) quickly – often causing great distress, the gradual expansion and combination of DNA databases has exposed relationships previously unrealised and even potentially compromising in private and working lives.
How far could this go?
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Turing's Radiator 