What we all need to understand about AI in a nutshell:
There’s an algorithm that can reliably predict, from aggregate facebook posts, the onset of a manic episode in a person suffering from bipolar disorder – more reliably even, than a trained psychotherapist, who only has access to the information a patient provides them in therapy sessions.
“Won’t technology like that help people with bipolar disorder?”
Theoretically, it could. But this algorithm wasn’t designed to help people with bipolar disorder.
This algorithm was designed to sell plane tickets to Las Vegas.
‘Rafiki’: Kenya Bans First Cannes Movie Over Lesbian Romance Storyline. Kenyan authorities announced it would ban lesbian romance film “Rafiki” ahead of its Cannes
Film Festival debut, on the grounds that it “promote[s] lesbianism” in
violation of Kenyan laws prohibiting gay sex. “Rafiki” is the first
Kenyan film ever invited to the internationally renowned festival.