Comment by magneticnorth
5 years ago
A well-written story that inspires a sort of creeping, muted horror.
For anyone like me who is confused by the relation of the title to the story, "The title "Lena" refers to Swedish model Lena Forsén, who is pictured in the standard test image known as "Lena" or "Lenna" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna>."
"Red motivation" is definitely the sort of apt polite allusion people would use refer to that subject matter. Chilling!
odd, when I first read it my brain misidentified it as "Hela cells"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
I thought so too, particularly given the lack of of consent from Lacks.
Consent to what? Be photographed?
I think the analogy is perfect; she consented to be photographed, but was powerless over the consequences.
Edit: ah sorry, got them confused.
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I FFT'd Lenna to hell and back in my EE368. Now I feel somehow morally complicit in all of this :(
Thankfully the idea is unrealistic.
Ants are the only creatures on Earth besides humans that have built a civilization - they farm, build cities, store and cook food and generally do all the things we classify as "intelligence".
They do this while lacking any brains in the conventional sense; in any case, whatever the number of neurons in an ant colony is, it is surely orders of magnitude less than the number in our deep learning networks.
At this point us trying to make artificial intelligence is like Daedalus trying to master flight by gluing feathers on his arms.
Some tribes regarded camera as a cursed item as they thought it captured your soul. They couldn't have been more right.