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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And I think software engineers are this century's key perpetrators of "good intentions." Here's a hint: if you saw it in a dystopic thriller you probably don't need to build it, even out of morbid curiosity.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And I think software engineers are this century's key perpetrators of "good intentions." Here's a hint: if you saw it in a dystopic thriller you probably don't need to build it, even out of morbid curiosity.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And I think software engineers are this century's key perpetrators of "good intentions." Here's a hint: if you saw it in a dystopic thriller you probably don't need to build it, even out of morbid curiosity.
What purpose does this serve? I'm genuinely curious what are the applications of this?
This would combine well with an in-painting algorithm-- or the video equivalents: https://research.adobe.com/project/content-aware-fill/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3uCV0JYMJ4
Will someone kindly smash this repo https://github.com/fivemok/image-inpainting together with the submission?
What purpose does this serve? I'm genuinely curious what are the applications of this?
Why are we building the technology of a dystopia? What happened to shows like Star Trek which gave us more helpful goals to work toward?
I love Star Trek but one person's utopia is another person's dystopia, it's just a matter of perspective.
And as far as technology goes, the original series predicted a couple of things, and we got a Space Shuttle named after the Enterprise, but most of it is magic and therefore useless to the real world. No matter how hard we work or how much we believe in ourselves we're never getting matter replication or transporters or holodecks that will create sentient life on command.
We could look at the ideals of Star Trek, but remember that what we see is quasi-militaristic, autocratic and there is no real sign anywhere of privacy or freedom from the surveillance infrastructure of the computer. Even the transporters keep copies of people's entire genetic code.
What's next, cameras that refuse to take pictures of specific things? I find this unsettlingly creepy.
Why are we building the technology of a dystopia? What happened to shows like Star Trek which gave us more helpful goals to work toward?
The Star Trek whose utopia needed a world war against the ethnic cleansing of genetically engineered Nazi supermen and an alien invasion to "civilize" humanity in the post-apocalyptic aftermath? After which which humankind just somehow evolved beyond the petty desires and violent impulses that had hitherto been baked into its primate genome for millions of years? I love Star Trek but one person's utopia is another pe…