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It's an important distinction as we move into a statically-usually-true AI future (vs the deterministically-true recent past). It doesn't matter until it does.

by ethbr0 4y ago

It's an important distinction as we move into a statically-usually-true AI future (vs the deterministically-true recent past). It doesn't matter until it does. Showing pretty pictures of the moon on Instagram? Doesn't matter. Planning a rover trip across the surface of the moon? Does matter. And while it may be absurd to expect anyone is planning the latter, the problem is that nowhere in the marketing or documentation of the future as-exists is there sufficient information to determine what use cases it should not be used for. Or, in other words, if Samsung were doing the exact same thing for cancer detection microscopy, they'd be killing people...

gambiting 4y ago
>>Or, in other words, if Samsung were doing the exact same thing for cancer detection microscopy, they'd be killing people... Now that's some major whataboutism if I've ever seen one. Of course, if they use this tech for cancer detection, I will happily join the protests. But they aren't. They take pictures you take with your camera and make them look sharp. If anything it's super cool the way they do it without resorting to pre-saved pictures of the moon. It's literally absurd to me that people are getting annoyed at this, even though literally all phones do image processing of one kind or another. >>the problem is that nowhere in the marketing or documentation of the future as-exists is there sufficient information to determine what use cases it should not be used for. Really? That's the problem people are having with it? That the mode exclusively demonstrated and marketed for taking pictures of the moon doesn't have sufficient information to establish what use cases it should not be used for? I find that extremely hard to believe - it sounds like a made up problem for clicks, exactly what Verge is doing(they are kind of famous for it).

by ethbr0 4y ago

gambiting 4y ago

>>Or, in other words, if Samsung were doing the exact same thing for cancer detection microscopy, they'd be killing people... Now that's some major whataboutism if I've ever seen one. Of course, if they use this tech for cancer detection, I will happily join the protests. But they aren't. They take pictures you take with your camera and make them look sharp. If anything it's super cool the way they do it without resorting to pre-saved pictures of the moon. It's literally absurd to me that people are getting annoyed at this, even though literally all phones do image processing of one kind or another. >>the problem is that nowhere in the marketing or documentation of the future as-exists is there sufficient information to determine what use cases it should not be used for. Really? That's the problem people are having with it? That the mode exclusively demonstrated and marketed for taking pictures of the moon doesn't have sufficient information to establish what use cases it should not be used for? I find that extremely hard to believe - it sounds like a made up problem for clicks, exactly what Verge is doing(they are kind of famous for it).