Six Oddities of Artificial Intelligence - OpenMind

Nowadays, much of humanity's hopes are placed in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is seen as a way to cure diseases, improve diagnostics or care for the environment. However, there are also many fears motivated by the possibility that the algorithms could end up escaping human control. In fact, some intellectual figures of the stature of the late physicist Stephen Hawking have reflected on the apocalyptic risk of these technologies, a warning that has been joined by others such as tech magnate Elon Musk and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. While the debate continues, here is a series of developments in recent years that will neither save the world nor bring about its demise, but rather serve to entertain us with the more curious side of AI. Can the sexual orientation of people be detected by their appearance?