computers are getting better at it, to behave human. But people in their Algorithms to throw: we Are only controllable drones in the Uber-car, or on the Deliveroo-bike?
Michael Moorstedt
at the beginning of each year, published the art criticism platform edge.org a Text that enjoyed the all too convenient a bit of time to shake up. In 2019, the technology historian George Dyson. His Text bears the title “Childhood’s End”. So Dyson, Arthur C. Clarke, in his eponymous Science-Fiction novel from 1953, a race of benevolent cited aliens – the look by the way like the biblical devil with your space on the cities of the earth popping up can ships.
they promise to mankind a new Golden age. No wars, no pollution, no poverty and no famine. This is tremendously pleasant for the population, however, they have given up for the Paradise on earth also their self-determination. The so-called Overlords have taken control, and their actual Motivation is unclear. It is not good for our species.
According to Dyson, we are well on the way to the future, it is not clear whether it is utopia or dystopia. Only the CEOs from the Silicon Valley to take the place of the satanic Aliens. “Individual Action is on the decline,” he writes. “Most of us follow most of the time, the instructions we receive from computers, and not the other way around.” The popular technology press has for this phenomenon, a handy tag ready. The magazine Fast Company was one of the so-called Botification straight to the “nine innovations that scare us in 2019, fear”. Also on the list: genetically engineered designer babies, and the omnipresent surveillance capitalism.
a human or Software?
the Botifizierung is that not only is the Computer are always communicating to human and to act. Also, we humans adapt ourselves and begin to speak binary, and mechanical and to act robotic. You can encounter this phenomenon in everyday life. A relatively trivial example is that us Software on the basis of our language use or a previously-made text analysis, word suggestions, which we then use in our E-Mails and text messages. Such a feedback results in a loop, at some point it is unclear who actually provides Input and who is the only Executive Agent. Man or Software?
it hurts to be human, perhaps in his feeling, to be unique, you can with a lot of good will but to capture even under comfort. Something difficult it is for the excesses of the On-demand work culture. In the case of services like Uber, or the countless delivery services submits to the human workers of an algorithmic-in-chief, determines which jobs to accept, how to get to the destination and, in some cases, how much money you get for it. The man who sits in the Uber-car, or on the Deliveroo-bike, is not more than a controllable drone, a node in the network, a Bot.
Dyson argues even further: If an overwhelming percentage of users typing in search of answers to his questions on Google, then the search engine no longer simply the model of human knowledge – it is human Knowledge. If enough users plan their way using a particular route planning software, then you will not be more traffic flows, it shapes you. That’s the way it works with consumer decisions and social relations.
If so, more and more, according to the recommendation algorithms of the major Tech companies, when reversed, then the Decision-making authority between the human and the machine? The provisional endpoint of the Botification the latest Version of Google’s Smartphone operating system Android. The Software should not only provide suggestions for words or traffic routes, but also, which App should you use next, and what actions, according to the experience now on the agenda. To go to users, it would be at the time, Jogging, and your mother
