Upon
watching the F8 conference
Building
technology such as the Facebook airplane, gear VR and augmented reality and
artificial intelligence.
As
a strong supporter of net neutrality, I like the idea of a marketplace of ideas
that Facebook will become a platform that gives the people power to share
anything they want to with anyone. However the issues of ethical standards and
credibility rise up as one of my main concerns. We each have a voice that we
can share, it's only when some voices become louder than others, "group
think" may lead people astray.
With
the hopes to HELP solve the world problems. I don't think naive is the
right term, I think these intentions are good, however reading between the
lines what may seem good, and power is corruptible. I think that we as humans
judge ourselves by good intentions however it is our actions that truly speak
for us. There are many generalizations in the speech about helping the world
that seems to be stretched out; there are many contradictions; reading between
the lines I am very skeptical about it.
I
like to think I'm an optimist, however it takes more than good efforts, but I
personally look to the leader of the pack to determine how I perceive the
group's credibility. Zuckerburg describes his vision to "bring people
together" and that we must connect to make progress. Messenger will now
have ways to simply message business or news sources for information. It seems
very biased to me since that allows an algorithm to figure out what kind
of news is important to you and simply cater only to that.
Free
services, well there is no such thing as free, in fact it seems all too good to
be true, to have free education tools and free medical information. I think
that this free information will have an underlying cost to the reader. Net
neutrality is important however this free vs. non free services makes me think
that only some things are free and not others, therefore Zuckerburg focuses
mainly on the free services.
In the topic about Artificial intelligence, to claim that if
a computer can detect whether or not a person's skin lesion will lead to skin
cancer, and jump over to say it will help save lives. Yes, there is prevention
due to early detection, however just as humans make mistakes, the machines we
create will also make mistakes. He continued that AI will develop perception,
which I think is important, but did not go into further detail to what extent
that would be. Emotions? Feeling? Morals?
On
the topic of Virtual reality and augmented reality, when used in moderation it
is not a bad idea. However, I find it extremely ironic how using these services
will bring people together. When used to the extreme it can be toxic.
Overall
I think the visions are with good intention however we need to think for
ourselves and use digression, to read between the lines and contradictions. As
well as acknowledge that there is a lack of checks and balances for executing
these points.
