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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? A nice YT video on A.I Post 303042332 by Neo on Saturday 21st of December 2019 11:15:39 PM

12-22-2019

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I see....

In my view, this is the "problem" ....

Commercial organizations continue to show things about A.I. applications which make consumers "happy" and "feel good", like the examples you show. This creates tremendous and constant marketing hype about A.I.

However, what they do not show you is the horrible things that A.I. is actually doing and all the unintended consequences.

For example, all the recent rise in global instability, because of the exponential rise of disinformation, which in turn leads to the rise of hate crimes and political and social instability, is caused by A.I.-based targeting algorithms which enable the weaponization of information in society.

Were these facts discussed by cool movies stars in the video?

I don't think so.

The reason for this is that big tech companies are promoting A.I. because A.I. has one main purpose for them, to increase their profits.

For example, traditional print and broadcast news uses human editors to determine what to print or broadcast. This employee many people.

However, Facebook, Google and all the other gigantic tech companies do not want to hire the army of people it would take to correctly filter content on their social media platforms. Why? That would lead to a huge decease in their profits. That is why they are spending so much money on A.I.

First, they want to fine tune targeting algorithms, which in turn means advertisers will pay more to advertise. This same technology is weaponized to spread disinformation and facilitates information warfare.
Second, they want to insure they do not have to use humans to read, edit and manage content on their social networks, because if they used people for this, they would be much less rich

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So, if readers think "A.I. is so cool and wonderful" and anyone is "star struck" with the hype around A.I., they I suggest they look at what A.I. is actually doing to harm society, how A.I. is being users to maximize corporate profits and minimize human editors and content managers, and how A.I. is used to target people and organizations and spread disinformation, while at the same time increasing the profits of the same companies.

This is why big tech must make these "look how cool A.I." is videos. They must show people A.I. being used to help identify earthquakes, feed babies, identify forest fires, etc. so everyone (society) will support A.I. development. However, at the same time, the same technology is used to do great harm to human society, as a whole.

This is a fact.

Think about it.

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Xv(3X)																	    Xv(3X)

Name
       Xv - X Window System video extension

Description
       The  Xv	extension provides support for video adaptors attached to an X display.  It takes the approach that a display may have one or more
       video adaptors, each of which has one or more ports through which independent video streams pass.

       An adaptor may be able to display video in a drawable, capture video from a drawable, or both.  It translates between video encoding (NTSC,
       PAL,  SECAM,  etc...) and drawable format (depth and visual-id pair). An adaptor may support multiple video encodings and/or multiple draw-
       able formats.

       Clients use Xv(3X) to gain access and manage sharing of a display's video resources.  Typically, a client will use XvQueryExtension(3X)	to
       determine  the  status of the extension, XvQueryAdaptors(3X) to get a description of what video adaptors exist, and XvQueryEncodings(3X) to
       get a description of what video encodings an adaptor supports.

       Once a client has determined what video resources are available, it is free to put video into a drawable or  get  video	from  a  drawable,
       according  the  capabilities  supported.   Clients  can	select	to  receive events when video activity changes in a drawable and when port
       attributes have changed.

Summary of Library Functions
       The following is a summary of Xv library functions:

       XvGetPortAttribute(3X) - return current port attribute value

       XvGetStill(3X) - capture a single frame of video from a drawable

       XvGetVideo(3X) - capture video from a drawable

       XvGrabPort(3X) - lock port for exclusive use by client

       XvPortNotify(3X) - event generated when port attributes change

       XvPutStill(3X) - write a single frame of video to a drawable

       XvPutVideo(3X) - write video into a drawable

       XvQueryAdaptors(3X) - return adaptor information for a screen

       XvQueryBestSize(3X) - determine the optimum drawable region size

       XvQueryEncodings(3X) - return list of encodings for an adaptor

       XvQueryExtension(3X) - return version and revision of extension

       XvSelectPortNotify(3X) - enable or disable XvPortNotify events

       XvSelectVideoNotify(3X) - enable or disable XvVideoNotify events

       XvSetPortAttribute(3X) - set an attribute for a port

       XvStopVideo(3X) - stop active video

       XvUngrabPort(3X) - release a grabbed port

       XvVideoNotify(3X) - event generated for video processing

       Each of these functions is described in its own Xv man page.

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