With AI-systems as matchmakers, in the coming decades it may become common to date a personalised avatar.
Jan 21, 2021 13:06:19 IST
It could be argued artificial intelligence (AI) is already the indispensable tool of the 21st century. From helping doctors
diagnose and treat patients, to rapidly advancing new drug discoveries, it’s our trusted partner in so many ways. Now it has found its way into the once exclusively-human domain of love and relationships. With AI-systems as matchmakers, in the coming decades it may become common to date a personalised avatar. This was explored in the 2014 movie “
Her”, in which a writer living in near-future Los Angeles develops affection for an AI system. The sci-fi film won an Academy Award for depicting what seemed like a highly unconventional love story.
Last December 5th The Suburban broke the story on a Health Ministry protocol that would limit intensive and emergency care as well as surgeries in cases where ICUs and ERs
Three years after helping to get rid of this upstart African democratic leader, the United States was instrumental in putting away Nelson Mandela for 28 years. The horror of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Iraq (to name just a selection) were still to come….
60 years on, Patrice Lumumba’s assassination stands as a gruesome reminder of post-colonial brutality
by Peter Bolton Jan. 17, 2021 Information Clearing House –
Exactly 60 years ago today, Congolese national liberation leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Those responsible were most likely troops of a rival government acting on behalf of the Congo’s former colonial master, which had retained a presence in the Central African country. But there’s more to the assassination than initially meets the eye. There has been a gradual accumulation of credible evidence that the world’s post-WWII colonial superpower, the United States, along with its sidekick the UK, p
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Arthur Schafer, professor of bioethics and founding director of the Centre for Professional & Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba: What the public most needs in COVID time is honest, accurate information we can trust.
Throughout its COVID-19 pandemic response, the Pallister government has dodged questions and delayed answers as the public grapples for clear information a “disastrous communications strategy, experts say.
Throughout its COVID-19 pandemic response, the Pallister government has dodged questions and delayed answers as the public grapples for clear information a disastrous communications strategy, experts say. What the public most needs in COVID time is honest, accurate information we can trust, said Arthur Schafer, professor of bioethics and founding director of the Centre for Professional & Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.