Augmented reality and machine empathy: another great sf story from Sarah Gailey

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/14/now-later-dismiss.html

real people personalities?

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467px-Your_plastic_pal_who's_fun_to_be_with!

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Sounds ghastly.

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It is.
 

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I got clobbered by an arm-bar to the middle, but it was believable.
Like OTACON (OTAcon) from the Solid Snake series is believable.

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Never drive on Update Tuesday.

Sarah Gailey (who wrote a brilliant, wrenching short story about empathy and self-driving cars)

Trolley problem, trolley problem … (peeks) yes! Trolley problem!

But now that we have Waymo rage, where people are taking advantage of knowing that self-driving cars will avoid collisions even if the other driver is an idiot, maybe researchers should start considering the other side of that coin:

When the other driver is a bully nutcase, and the machine has complete video and data records that the idiot is totally at fault, are there situations where accepting a (minimized) fender-bender is the right thing to do?

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