Re:Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions?
by andrewfromx on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:24PM
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I saw a recent example of true snake oil on an HBO series called "The Knick" about the Knickerbocker Hospital in NYC 1900s. In that plot line a company had put together a potion that didn't harm you, but didn't do anything it claimed to. They approached the famous surgeon played by Clive Owen and ask him to front the product, just slap his name on it, boom instant hit.
Well Dr. John W. Thackery had too much pride to be associated with that and refused the money.
Cut to modern day version, I'm a computer programmer and I write code to correctly place humans from video feeds into various buckets based on the RGB colors I scan from bitmap image 2d arrays... and I say it places them into buckets like "possible upset" and "very much in flow state" or "bored, brain not engaged." And then sell this program/SAAS product to companies and they get value from these buckets... how is that still true snake oil?
Well Dr. John W. Thackery had too much pride to be associated with that and refused the money.
Cut to modern day version, I'm a computer programmer and I write code to correctly place humans from video feeds into various buckets based on the RGB colors I scan from bitmap image 2d arrays... and I say it places them into buckets like "possible upset" and "very much in flow state" or "bored, brain not engaged." And then sell this program/SAAS product to companies and they get value from these buckets... how is that still true snake oil?