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by socialcooling 2087 days ago
Creator here.

The project was created as part of my role as artist within the Sherpa consortium. It's a Horizon2020 research project whose goal is to figure out what Europeans believe are the biggest issues around AI that we'll experience in 2025. Most of the other partners are universities, and I'm the lucky one who gets to translate what we learn into art pieces.

Learn more about Sherpa here: https://www.project-sherpa.eu/

All the other works I've created / am creating for Sherpa can be found here: https://www.sherpapieces.eu/

Besides working as an artist I also work as a privacy designer, which means I specialise in creating things/products that protect privacy.

This website was a very cool challenge to build, a testament to the power of javascript.
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adaml_623 2087 days ago
I followed a link to socialcooling.com as well the other day. The things you are talking about are critical for a decent civilisation moving forward. Thank you for talking about them and making us think.
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ForHackernews 2087 days ago
This is really cool work! If somebody else wanted to get involved in working on projects like these, how would you suggest getting started?
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socialcooling 2086 days ago
That's difficult to say. You could start with getting to to know an issue and specialising in it. Reading books from academic writers (not the stuff sold at airport bookstores). Read Slashdot. Once you've got a grasp, think about how you could translate what you learnt so that your mom would understand it. Think about what your mom likes: quizes, human-interest stories. Lighthearted stuff. Then create your own translation.

It's probably easiest to connect with a local group of people who care about these issues.

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drpgq 2087 days ago
Where do the algorithms come from?
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socialcooling 2086 days ago
The main one is FaceApiJS.

One I trained myself (BMI), and the others I just scavenged from existing Github projects. So with most of these I don't know how they were trained, what photos they were fed, etc.

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drpgq 2083 days ago
How accurate is the BMI estimator? I trained one years ago, but the performance wasn't great.
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