(A)Futurism

Player’s drawing of “ahegao” in Half Life: Alyx

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346810/

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Sh4YGSA5ol61d1joUKufmA

Read for some particularly illuminating passages on the fight and fear over technology.

“Alibaba’s system monitors hog activity and allows farmers to track the swine in real time, the company said in a statement. It would then prescribe an exercise plan to improve their health. Its marketing video shows pigs running in the woods and playing with a ball. Alibaba said Tequ Group, a large pig farming company based in the southwestern province of Sichuan, uses the technology. Tequ didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Pig facial recognition works the same way as human facial recognition, the companies say. Scanners and software take in the bristles, the snout, the eyes and ears. The features are mapped. Pigs don’t all look alike when you know what to look for, they said.

“It’s just like how a human face is different from others,” said Mr. He, of Yingzi.

The pigs don’t always cooperate. Yingzi, which introduced its products commercially last year, uses video to capture them in motion.”