Amazon’s Rekognition shows its true colors. Digital tourism On Dam Square, in the center of Amsterdam, you’ll find a camera. It's no ordinary security camera: this camera broadcasts images of Dam Square, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in extremely high quality on YouTube. The camera can zoom in from one side of the square straight to the other side. As we're told on the supplier's websiteGo to the website of webcam.nl : this is good for ‘digital tourism’. The camera is also good for our investigation: it offers the perfect opportunity to test facial recognition technology. Amazon's Rekognition For this investigation, we tested ‘Rekognition’, Amazon's facial recognition technology. We uploaded a picture to allow the software to become familiar with my face.
But Rekognition creates even more dataFor the enthusiast: the entire JSON response from Rekognition regarding my face. Okay. Bingo! Very little is needed to recognize a face: This grainy picture is all Rekognition needs to recognize me. Tweens, Teens, and Phones: What Our 2019 Research Reveals. Is there anything more frustrating than hearing "fine" when you ask your kid how their day was? It's the same feeling -- times 1,000 -- when we see our kids on their devices and have no clue what they're up to. Though many of us worry, the Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2019 reveals that, just like a kid's experience of their school day, the truth is much more nuanced and complicated than it appears to the naked eye.
What are they really doing online for so many hours a day? Does every kid have a phone? What's my role as a parent? Our research provides insight into these questions so we can help our kids navigate the online world and be the best parents we can be. The new census is the second wave of research tracking changes in tweens’ and teens’ use of and relationship with media between 2015 and 2019. Tweens and teens (still) use a lot of screen media. So, where do you fit into all of this? Ignore cellphone pressure. Enjoy videos and apps with your kid.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings.
Where does it end? Maybe I’m just a worrywart.
Radiolab: Eye In the Sky - The controversy surrounding police departments that use advanced surveilance technology pioneered in foreign wars. Intro: Listener-supported WNYC Studios. Robert Krulwich: Oh, wait. You're listening- Speaker 3: Okay. Jad Abrumad: All right. You're listening to Radiolab. Radiolab. From- Yup. I'm Robert Krulwich.
Manoush Zomorodi: Hello, Robert. And I asked you to come in just because I wanted you to sort of set this up, if you could. Oh, happy to. It's kind of like a spy thriller, actually. Definitely a spy thriller. Right. Alex Goldmark: So how did you guys find out about this? I think it was somebody was reading about it. This is Manoush Zomorodi. It was you reading about it. Right. And that's her producer, Alex Goldmark. And I just said, his name is McNutt. Barack Obama: Technology is remaking what is possible for individuals and for institutions and for the international order. I'm Jad Abumrad. I'm Robert Krulwich. This is Radiolab. ... about what we want our future to look like, be like. Today, we're going to look at the can and the should with our friends down the hall, Manoush Zamorodi and Alex Goldmark.
McNutt. Yeah. Radiolab: CRISPR - What is CRISPR? And howthis method for genetic manipulation could change human life. Speaker 2: Hey, you're lis- Speaker 3: Okay. Speaker 2: All right. Speaker 3: You're listening- Speaker 2: Listening- Speaker 3: ... to Radiolab. Speaker 2: Radiolab. Speaker 3: From- Speaker 2: WNYC. Speaker 3: C? Speaker 2: Yeah. Kevin Esvelt: Let me tell you, there is nothing like the sheer elation of discovery.
Soren Wheeler: So in the morning, you're like woo hoo. Molly Webster: You're singing to the turtles in the park and ... Kevin Esvelt: Pretty much and I give myself a full day of being woohoo and then I started thinking but, but, but, but what if something goes wrong? Jad Abumrad: I'm Jad Abumrad. Robert Krulwich: I'm Robert Krulwich. Jad Abumrad: This is Radiolab and the guy that you just heard is Kevin Esvelt. Robert Krulwich: Which is a technology. Jad Abumrad: Yeah. Soren Wheeler: Yeah. Jad Abumrad: I don't remember that. Robert Krulwich: As if there was going to be a part two. Molly Webster: That's [inaudible 00:01:33]. Soren Wheeler: Yeah. Jad Abumrad: Yeah it's true. Jad Abumrad: Yeah. Radiolab: The Ceremony - An overview of how cryptocurrencies work told through the story of the birth of a new cryptocurrency.
Intro 1:Intro 1: Wait, wait you're listening- (laughs) Intro 2: Kay. Jad Abumrad: All right. You're listening- Intro 1: ... listening- ... to Radiolab. Radiolab. From- Yep. Hey, I'm Jad Abumrad. Molly Webster: I'm Molly Webster. This is Radiolab. Well, I guess I was just thinking I should probably tell you just the, um, Morgan and I back story of- Yes. ... of how I heard about the story. Cool. So, Morgan and I went to grad school together at NYU so I guess I've known her for almost 11 years. Okay. And we're, we're, we're holed up in my apartment, I don't know, this was like No-, last November or something.
Of course you do. ... just sittin' on (laughs) just, just sittin' on the floor pillow. Really? Yeah. That's what, she really said that? ... and I was like, "What? What? (laughs) I was like, "What is going on? " (laughs) (laughs) And then at, by this point she's taking the battery out of her phone. Mm-hmm (affirmative). (laughs) What was it that happened? W- i- it takes a few steps. (laughs) Okay. Morgan Peck: Hi. Radiolab: Driverless Dilemma - Who is responsible for a car accident involving autonomous vehicles. Speaker 1:Oh, wait, you're listen (laughs). Speaker 2:Okay. Speaker 1:All right. Speaker 2:You're listen ... Speaker 1:Listening ... Speaker 2:To Radiolab. Speaker 1:WNYC. Speaker 2:C? Speaker 1:Yeah. Jad Abumrad:I'm Jad Abumrad. Robert Krulwich:I'm Robert Krulwich, and you know what this is. Jad Abumrad:It's Radiolab (laughs). Robert Krulwich:Yeah. Jad Abumrad:Okay, so we're going to play you a little bit of tape first, just to set up the ... what we're going to do today.
Robert Krulwich:Yeah, we were really worried about a lot of fake news. Nick Bilton:My name is Nick Bilton. Robert Krulwich:And in the course of our conversation, Nick ... Jad Abumrad:Yeah, he was like, "You know, you guys want to talk about fake news, but that's not actually what's eating at me. " Nick Bilton:The thing that I've been pretty obsessed with lately is actually not fake news, but it's automation and artificial intelligence and, um, and driverless cars. Jad Abumrad:(laughing) Jad Abumrad:Quite bold. Robert Krulwich:Right. Testing 1, 2, 3: Where Is My Self Driving Car? on Apple Podcasts. TED Radio Hour: Warped Reality on Apple Podcasts. Planet Money: Antitrust 3: Big Tech - Have a few large technology companies become monoplies? And should antitrust laws be used to break them up to ensure future competition.
American Innovations: Electronic Television: The Picture Radio - A history of the birth of the modern televison. American Innovations: Radar | The Superpowers of Modern Radar. Short Wave: Adversarial AI - A look at how university and military researchers are studying how attackers could hack into AI systems by exploiting how these systems learn. Schools In: The future of AI in education - How will artificial intelligence change how we learn and teach? The future of AI in education On this episode of School’s In, Senior Lecturer Denise Pope interviews her co-host, Graduate School of Education Dean Dan Schwartz, about artificial intelligence in education.
Robots won’t replace teachers, he says, explaining potential applications of AI that could help teachers improve how they present material in the classroom or reduce the biases that plague standardized tests. Schwartz is an affiliated faculty member of the newly launched Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, which brings scholars from across disciplines together as the field continues to develop.
You can listen to School’s In on SiriusXM Insight channel 121, Apple Podcasts and Soundcloud. Trailblazers: Agriculture: Can vertical and urban farming feed the world? - How can advanced technology change our food supply? Walter Isaacson: We find ourselves in Cambridge, England. The year is 1798, and clerican scholar, Thomas Robert Malthus, is getting ready to publish a controversial piece of writing. It’s an essay that will go down in history as one of the most important pieces of writing ever produced about perhaps the most important topic we face on this planet: how we feed ourselves.
Thomas Malthus was obsessed with population data. He collected figures on births, deaths, age of marriage, and childbearing. He then poured all of that thinking into a piece of writing that featured, quite frankly, a less than catchy title; ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, Mr. In subsequent editions, Malthus did shorten the title a bit, but the central thesis of his essay stayed the same. How did we do it, and what did Malthus get wrong? [00:02:30] Speaker 3: This is the country of big beefers and vast ranches.
Trailblazers: Batteries: The Power of Portable Power - How has battery technology advanced and what this means for our future. Walter Isaacson: Benjamin Franklin was fascinated by electricity. If there’s one image that’s seared in the minds of American school children, it’s Franklin standing in a storm holding his kite, hoping to discover the electrical properties of lightning. The more he learned about electricity, the more intrigued Franklin became, and the more [00:00:30] eager he was to enhance his understanding of the properties of electricity. In one of his first experiments, Franklin had his friends draw charges from spinning glass tubes, and then touch each other to see if sparks flew. The results led him to a conclusion that was revolutionary at the time. Electricity was a fluid, like a liquid. It wasn’t created by the friction. [00:01:00] It already existed.
It passed from one body to another through a process of charging and discharging. Speaker 2: Nowadays, we use flashlights and portable radios. Speaker 3: The source of electrical energy, the battery, must be maintained in proper condition. Invisibilia: Our Computers, Ourselves - Are computers changing human character? Invisibility: Trustfall - How hacking, surveillance, and disinformation can be used against ordinary citizens to upend their lives. 99 % Invisible: The ELIZA Effect - Can computers master human language and conversation? Throughout Joseph Weizenbaum’s life, he liked to tell this story about a computer program he’d created back in the 1960s as a professor at MIT. It was a simple chatbot named ELIZA that could interact with users in a typed conversation.
As he enlisted people to try it out, Weizenbaum saw similar reactions again and again — people were entranced by the program. They would reveal very intimate details about their lives. It was as if they’d just been waiting for someone (or something) to ask. ELIZA was a simple computer program. ELIZA was one of the first computer programs that could convincingly simulate human conversation, which Weizenbaum found frankly a bit disturbing. Weizenbaum started raising these big, difficult questions at a time when the field of artificial intelligence was still relatively new and mostly filled with optimism. Idolizing Machines People have long been fascinated with mechanical devices that imitate humans.
Mirroring Language Expert Systems Casual Therapy. 99% Invisible: Missing the Bus - Do we already have one piece of technology that could do away with traffic jams, make cities more equitable, and help us solve climate change? If you heard that there was a piece of technology that could do away with traffic jams, make cities more equitable, and help us solve climate change, you might think about driverless cars, or hyperloops or any of the other new transportation technologies that get lots of hype these days. But there is a much older, much less sexy piece of machinery that could be the key to making our cities more sustainable, more liveable, and more fair: the humble bus. Steven Higashide is a transit expert, bus champion, and author of a new book called Better Buses Better Cities. And the central thesis of the book is that buses have the power to remake our cities for the better.
But he says that if we want the bus to reach its potential, we’re going to have to make the experience riding one, a lot more pleasant. A Better Way To Travel Americans take 4.7 billion trips a year on the bus, but many of those trips are miserable. Politics of Transit A lot of it also comes down to political power. Better Buses. Youre Wrong About: The Y2K Bug - The history of the Y2k Bug. Why is was a real concern and how it was avoided. #97 What Kind Of Idiot Gets Phished? | Reply All. PHIA BENNIN: From Gimlet, this is Reply All. I’m Phia Bennin. So, for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been wondering nonstop about the same question. The question is about this kind of hack…phishing. I’ve always had the impression that phishing is something I shouldn’t worry about, because nobody really falls for it. And even here at work, in March, we were trying to figure out how Alex Blumberg’s Uber account got hacked.
And when Alex Goldman even suggested the possibility that he might’ve gotten phished, Blumberg got genuinely annoyed. ALEX GOLDMAN: Do you know what phishing is? ALEX BLUMBERG: Yes. ALEX GOLDMAN: Did that happen? ALEX BLUMBERG: No. ALEX GOLDMAN:: (laughing) You seem so mad! ALEX BLUMBERG: I- I- I- I can’t image giving my password to someone who wrote to me over email.
PHIA: Blumberg felt about it the way I did. And, it got me wondering...what kind of person gets phished? And I thought, “Huh! So, he sent every member of the Reply All team some kind of phishing test. PJ: Yeah.