Self-driving vehicles could begin tooling down a bustling Atlanta street full of cars, buses, bicyclists and college students, as the city vies with other communities nationwide to test the emerging technology. Atlanta would become one of the largest urban areas for testing self-driving vehicles if plans come together for a demonstration as early as September.
Category: Robots
Why Robots Always Turn Out Sexist
As highlighted by Donald Trump’s rhetoric and Hillary Clinton’s treatment by some in the media , sexism is still alive and well . Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that artificial intelligence -something coded by humans-is also sexist.
Lindy West Leaves Twitter: “Get Back To Me When Your Website Isn’t A Roiling Rat-King Of Nazis”
Writer Lindy West, who spent years cultivating a reputation for engaging with social media trolls, has announced she’s leaving Twitter because of the “global repercussions” of the platform’s “refusal to stop” harassment campaigns launched by the white supremacist, misogynist “alt-right” movement. In a January 3 opinion piece at The Guardian , West explained that she had deactivated her Twitter account after “half a decade of troubleshooting” to curb personal harassment and threats from anonymous users trolling her on the social media platform.