Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The Facebook Outage and Whistleblower | RTBRuhan

Facebook has been under scrutiny for a long time. But the latest controversy is one of the most serious allegations against Facebook yet.

Facebook's content moderation policies are designed to maintain safety on the social network, but some are concerned that they may be too strict, allowing violent and disturbing content to proliferate. The recent Facebook outage happened shortly after a whistleblower revealed identity,

Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, leaked the documents. She leaked these documents so people could see what’s happening with their sensitive data. The document contains some important information about how Facebook is making money by selling user data. She also revealed the Facebook earns the most profit when they can promote polarization of information, hatred, or polarization of opinion. In an interview with 60 minutes, she said In the 2020 election (in which Joe Biden won) they stopped promoting the polarization of false/fabricated information, hate, or opinion in their algorithms for a "temporary" period but turned it back on after the election, which often led to the US Capitol Riot. It happened earlier this year because of Facebook. In 2017, when Facebook made a big change in their algorithm, they adopted a policy of increasing their profits by spreading hatred on the internet (because as long as you spend time on Facebook, your chances of making money will increase and the main way to keep you stuck is to give you the opposite). Many political parties then complained that we now have to adopt a lot of extremist policies for you which we might not have adopted without Facebook in normal times.

As for Facebook's companion app Instagram, 13.5% of teenage girls think Instagram makes suicidal thoughts worse. 16% of teenage girls say Instagram creates an eating disorder. As a result, they have a negative attitude towards their bodies and become depressed due to repeated visits to Instagram.

Haugen explained everything here is happening just make user interaction longer so that Facebook can get more benefit out of that. She also said these problems are solvable if congress steps in and makes sure to respect free speech.


Monday, October 4, 2021

Artificial Intelligence and its Future | RTBRuhan

 When I think about Artificial Intelligence I feel like, In the future, AI will be as smart as human beings. It will have the ability to think and feel like a human.

The question of whether machines can come to be intelligent like humans is one that has preoccupied philosophers since antiquity. Aristotle, for example, suggested that living things could not arise from non-living matter; Descartes suggested that animals were nothing more than complex machines; and Turing postulated his famous test for intelligence which asks whether a computer can convince humans it is intelligent through conversation alone.

The future of Artificial Intelligence is the direction mankind is heading towards. The use cases are limitless, but it can be imagined that AI will get more and more integrated in our lives.

Artificial intelligence technology is developing very quickly. It’s becoming increasingly used in all aspects of life - from self-driving cars to intelligent chatbots for customer service purposes, to voice recognition systems that can understand human language. There are both benefits and risks associated with the future of Artificial Intelligence. The risks are often discussed, but there are also many benefits to AI technology. The future looks bright for AI - so long as we decide how it should evolve in its next form!

AI is a broad term that covers a wide range of computer science topics. Artificial Intelligence is an area of study that seeks to create intelligent machines. AI can be used as a tool to make predictions and solve problems in the world. AI can also be used as a way to predict human behavior and predict what humans want from their products. In the future, AI will help humans with tasks such as traffic control, healthcare, and even predicting crimes before they happen by mining data for patterns.

But who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it can be more good or bad.....that depends on how we drive the car......