{"id":5713,"date":"2021-05-24T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technarrativelab.org\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:31:05","slug":"can-ai-help-us-understand-what-it-means-to-be-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2021\/05\/24\/can-ai-help-us-understand-what-it-means-to-be-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AI help us understand what it means to be human?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>via Eddie L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XXvllhXB5u4\">commercial<\/a> over the weekend when loading a YouTube video\u2026 and wow. Mine was an abbreviated, 30-second version, but even then, I have to say it was so powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The synopsis? Meet a hungry girl, constructed by AI \u201cfrom [the] faces of the 1 in 7 American children who struggle with hunger.\u201d And yes, there are definitely shots in the video where you can tell that the girl is not \u201cnormal\u201d \/ not real, but I think that is beside the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found this video to be powerful because it found a way to take such a large problem and give it a face. Beyond that, that face is not simply any face, but a conglomeration of so many faces, and so many people, and so many stories all wrapped into one being. Maybe better said, it is not <em>a<\/em> face of hunger in America, but <em>the <\/em>face of hunger in America\u2026 and I love that. That ability to do so is so SO cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Eddie L\u00f3pez I got this commercial over the weekend when loading a YouTube video\u2026 and wow. Mine was an abbreviated, 30-second version, but even then, I have to say it was so powerful. The synopsis? Meet a hungry girl, constructed by AI \u201cfrom [the] faces of the 1 in 7 American children who struggle&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[41,66],"class_list":["post-5713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-ml","category-narrative","tag-eddie-lopez","tag-tech-stream-residency"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6531,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions\/6531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}