My neighbor, a loner, is still living in the same home that his deceased parents raised him in. He is impossible to converse with. But he is harmless; habitual and regular as clockwork. He wears the same clothes all year round, regardless of weather or occasion. There are no visitors.
Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women
Amazon.com Inc’s machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.
The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants’ resumes with the aim of mechanizing the search for top talent, five people familiar with the effort told Reuters.
Robot Love?
Researchers have been developing a sophisticated humanoid robot that people in the future may want to marry. A human-robot marriage would pose challenges to lawmakers, including whether robots could be granted custody of children or access to family bank accounts. Any intimate relationship between humans and robots, however, may pose challenges to the...
Renting a Family
Two years ago, Kazushige Nishida, a Tokyo salaryman in his sixties, started renting a part-time wife and daughter. His real wife had recently died. Six months before that, their daughter, who was twenty-two, had left home after an argument and never returned.
“I thought I was a strong person,” Nishida...