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Why We Shouldn't Trust AI to Tell Us What We Feel


Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion
Kate Crawford
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At a remote outpost in the mountainous highlands of Papua New Guinea, a young American psychologist named Paul Ekman arrived with a collection of flash cards and a new theory. It was 1967, and Ekman had heard that the Fore people of Okapa were so isolated from the wider world that they would be his ideal test subjects.
Like Western researchers before him, Ekman had come to Papua New Guinea to extract data from the indigenous community. He was gathering evidence to bolster a controversial hypothesis: that all humans exhibit a small number of universal emotions, or affects, that are innate and the same all over the world. For more than half a century, this claim has remained contentious, disputed among psychologists, anthropologists, and technologists. Nonetheless, it became a seed for a growing market that will be worth an estimated $56 billion by 2024. This is the s ....

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The Barrier in Experience: The Holocaust Films of Canadian Survivor Jack Kuper


The Barrier in Experience: The Holocaust Films of Canadian Survivor Jack Kuper
Jeremy Maron
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May 2020
Jack Kuper is an author, filmmaker and Holocaust survivor from Toronto (Fig. 1). He immigrated to Canada in 1947 at the age of 15 as part of the Canadian Jewish Congress’ War Orphans Project, which brought to Canada approximately one thousand Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust.
1 Kuper has published two autobiographical novels –
Child of the Holocaust (1967), about his experiences on the run and in hiding in rural Poland during the Second World War, and
After the Smoke Cleared (1994), which covers his post-war immigration and assimilation into Canada, and his adulthood. ....

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