Zeynep Tufekci 2: Machine intelligence makes human morals more important

TED 2016
Zeynep Tufekci 2: Machine intelligence makes human morals more important (transcript)
Summary
I've already read a similar article to this.
It summarized that we have to be better people and learn to be better people when technologies develop more.
Now, AI started to work with us. It's very smart. We start thinking that it can do everything soon, it can make better decisions than we do and we don't have to deal with any troublesome questions of ethics. However, machine learning means to only calculate an enormous data.
It can't understand what to do itself, and it can't logically and ethically do something also. Surprisingly, the machine deals with too much data and it's too strong for people who create it to understand what it is thinking.
In our world, thinking subjectively, logically and ethically is important and only thinking objectively doesn't work anything.
We should not seek average society. We need to accept our biases, overcome it and have responsibilities to use AI.
We can only hold on important human values and human ethics morally.

Words in this story
prejudice /noun/ bias
objective /adj/  unbiased
subjective /adj/ based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
decipher /verb/ convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language.

Zeynep Tufekci 1: Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win

TED 2015
Zeynep Tufekci 1: Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win (transcript)
Summary
This is her first talk. When first I'd read her third article, I couldn't understand it. That’s why I tried to read this.
The speaker is a Turkish writer said to be a Techno-sociologist who primarily writes about the effect of technology. Her background helped me understand this talk.
She writes about the effect of technology. She wants us to know about real social movements, how they occur and how you can originate those movements. We've entered a combinational era. Thus we have to use not only technologies but also hard ways. The hard way is a slower work that is tough and a tedious task. People have to think together collectively, make hard decisions together, create consensus, and innovate. By strugglingly gathering to do many things in reality, they can overcome differences and go forward.
Today's movements scale up very quickly by using technologies, but they don't have the organizational base and don't know what to do next. Beyond participation on the internet, people have to think together collectively and effectively use it to win.
In our movements, online social change is easy to organize but hard to win.

Words in this story
convict /noun/ prisoner, inmate, criminal
parole /noun/ the release of a prisoner temporarily (for a special purpose) or permanently before the completion of a sentence, on the promise of good behavior.

Jeff Kreisler : Get Rich Cheating

TEDxEast Salon
Jeff Kreisler : Get Rich Cheating (transcript)
Summary
I thought that I’ve read a poor story.
l started to read this, because l love Dan Ariely who seems to write books with the speaker. However, the speaker’s sarcasm is different from him.
I couldn't believe that the story was told to sell this book “Get Rich Cheating”.
Although it's true that only cheaters can get rich, l don't want to follow this. I don't want to listen to the story that someone cheats someone or tests someone's moral and l want to be a person who is cheated more than a person who cheats someone.
Hiring and working don't  mean to get only money. Those mean to give or to serve someone something. I think that the true meaning of “Get Rich” is difficult. It's because there are people who have a lot of money but who are not happy.
I think that being healthy, honest, cute, hard, and hard working living happily are more important than getting rich.

Due to that,  I'm always cheated by someone. hahaha

Words in this story
sale /noun/ the exchange of a commodity for money; the action of selling something.
sell /verb/ give or hand over (something) in exchange for money.
fraud /noun/ wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.

Dan Ariely : Who doesn’t love sales? There’s just one problem: they lead us to make dumb choices

IDEAS.TED.COM Dan Ariely + Jeff Kresler
Who doesn’t love sales? There’s just one problem: they lead us to make dumb choices (article)
Summary
I thought that I was really a lucky person when I read this title. It's because I was taught by my mother that going bargains led me to making dumb choices. I have to buy something when I use it, even if its price will be high. 1) I shouldn't say to want what everyone has, even its price will be cheap. 2) Something that I use is important more than something of 50% off that I don't use.  Until a product breaks down, I have to use it. Using frequently and usefully means to have value. 3)
We have to be careful when we see the words, "50% off,"
"Marked down," "For sale," and  "Coupons". In fact, the real price might be equal roughly to bargains. It's, at first, raising prices and then lowering them.
There are many difficult prices to measure for us in shops. For example, the larger bottle is cheaper than the small one. Something comes with, but it's not necessary, however, it's not expensive. And then, bundles products sometimes hide one product price.
First, it's wrong to compare though people can't help but compare all things. Especially prices are designed to confuse us, thus it's difficult to know about true value. Was what you bought okay?

Words in this story
bargain /noun/ a thing bought or offered for sale more cheaply than is usual or expected.
lament /verb/ mourn (a person's loss or death).
covet /verb/ yearn to possess or have (something).
compartmentalize /verb/ divide into sections or categories.

Elizabeth Blackburn : The science of cell that never get old

TED 2017
Elizabeth Blackburn : The science of cell that never get old (transcript)
Summary
This is a happy news that women don't need money to stay young.
According to the speaker’s study, our telomeres could stay longer for longer periods of time, it leads to extending our feelings of youthfulness. A telomere is a compound structure that is an enzyme at the end of a chromosome. Chromosomes break down when cells divide and telomeres replenish the caps the end of them. To shorten our telomeres is aging. We have to avoid it. In fact, it turned out that by feeling stress, telomeres became shorter.
However, we can maintain our telomeres if we are resilient to stress. 1)
When you don't think that stress is a threat but you think that it's a challenge, it doesn't damp down your telomeres. 2)
The study also showed that by avoiding outside factors such as violence, bullying, racism, and wars were important to keep telomeres.  3)
We will understand that aging is created by our own hands. When our actions change, our telomeres stay longer and we live long beautifully.

Words in this story
telomere /tɛ́ləmir/
chromosome /ˈkɹoʊməˌsoʊm/
replenish /verb/ fill (something) up again.
resilience /noun/ the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.
resilient /adj/
resistance /noun/ the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.
resist /verb/ withstand the action or effect of.

James Bond

Today’s topic is a movie too.
Who's your favorite actor who played James Bond in the movie 007?
There is no person who doesn't know about Bond among the people who like movies. They often talk about Bond.
In fact, l love a man who'd been said to be the next Bond. He is Idris Elba. Probably, he's never been to Japan, he's unknown in Japan, and his dramas and movies are hardly announced in Japan.
Then, unfortunately, he seems not to be the next Bond recently.
I've heard that next 007, the same actor as before will play and the same singer will sing the theme song. The actor is Daniel Craig, the singer is Adele. The movie Skyfall was the great movie, but it's unfortunate for me this time.

Why can we enjoy the movies 007?
I think that the series of 007 is just simply action movies that are not difficult. We don't need to think something deeply and women must think that men are always do something like Bond. He is cool and smart but men will be boys. Hahaha, then we feel that we'll be Bond girls someday. When next 007 is decided, definitely previous one is announced on TV. I think that we need to watch it and I'm looking forward to watching it also.

Recognizing What They Had, 20 Years Too Late

The New York Times

Recognizing What They Had, 20 Years Too Late (transcript)

My views

I think that all people have what they could tell or ask important things to an important person. Probably, we couldn't notice that it's important, even if someone advised it to us. We always think that our decisions are right at that time.

I think that all things that happened to us is inevitable but it's not by chance.

What you couldn't tell him is the reason that you remember him and it reminds you of him.

I recognize that what you’ve had is beautiful 20 years.

Words in this story

eavesdropping /

cushiony /

interpret /verb/ explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions).