Core77’s editors spend time combing through the news so you don’t have to. Here’s a weekly roundup of our favorite stories from the World Wide Web.
The Justice League for AI
What happens when Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft join forces? Hopefully an industry standard for ethical development of AI. As the New York Times reported earlier today, the tech giants have been meeting to ensure that machine intelligence doesn’t run amok.
—LinYee Yuan, managing editor
Self-Driving Cars Don’t Care About Your Moral Dilemmas
This Guardian article addresses the classic question: Should a self-driving car kill its driver to save others’ lives?
—Rain Noe, senior editor
Drake Will Need a Walkie Talkie Just to Get a Beverage in His New Mansion
Toronto based visualization studio, Norm Li, took it upon themselves to create highly detailed renderings of Drake’s proposed mansion in “the 6” to life. Highlights of their appropriately named project, “Drizzy Manor” include an OVO Sound themed basketball court and a “Hotline Bling” inspired champagne room.
—Emily Engle, editorial assistant
Autonomous Vehicles Could Change the Way We Relate to Our World
I’m happy to see a philosophical take on our autonomous vehicle future in this think piece written by Chenoe Hart. Yes, the driverless future is quite astounding, but what will this do to the way we observe and absorb our surroundings? With radical car concepts like IDEO’s traveling office vehicle, we will soon “have to deliberately choose what we want to see” as Hart puts it: “cityscapes become optional, consumable on demand rather than by necessity. Meanwhile, the mobile workplace’s controlled internal habitat would remain constant no matter where it was.”
Postulations in the article are admittedly and intentionally far-fetched, but think nowadays about how hard it can be to simply get around without your iPhone and your Google Maps app—you think we were imagining that as an integral part of our reality 10 years ago?
—Allison Fonder, community manager
http://www.core77.com/posts/55738/Lets-Talk-About-Self-Driving-Cars-Detailed-Renderings-of-Drakes-Proposed-Mansion-and-The-Justice-League-for-AI