The video starts by clarifying the difference between the reverse image search of both search engines Yandex ( a Japanese search engine) and Google. When you use Google to search for a photo, using the reverse image search, the results would be websites where this picture had been used along with visually similar images (images that have similar coloring). However, Yandex’s reverse image search “does not look for visually similar images, if look for similar faces, ir even the same face.”  This difference in the reverse photo search in both engines shows that, unlike Yandex, Google has not turned its facial recognition feature on. On Yandex you can basically search for someone’s name by looking up an image of their face. The video then shows an example in which a person on the metro is trying to take a photo of a girl’s face (who is sitting in front of him) in order to look her up later. The video then moves on to discussing the algorithm behind facial recognition, saying that it basically detects faces in images and fixes any rotation of the head and then starts to take over a hundred measurements (including: the width of the mouth, distance between the eyes, the length of the nose, and so on) to identify that specific face and link it to a name tag. However, what exactly the algorithm is measuring still remains a mystery. These algorithms store the data in databases. For example, in the iPhone there’s only one database, meaning that it can store only one face (the face which you volunteer to have stored on the iPhone’s database) in order to make it easier to unlock your phone. Additionally, Google and Facebook also store the database of their users. Governments, however, have the largest access to databases of people’s names and faces. The government collects images for passports and other reasons but lately they’ve been using these images “without our consent” for the purpose of facial recognition . One scary example is presented by Aric Toler, a journalist from Bellingcat (which is an investigative journalism website), where he utilizes the Russian social media network “VK”. He trims out a square of a picture which included a large crowd, keeping only one person’s face and then searches that face on this social media network. Not only did VK give results of that person’s face from his own social media page, but it also gave results of images, which included him, from other people’s pages. This video shows how technology now makes it easier for governments to store information about people that have committed offenses and felonies and how they how they sell them to banks and other entities that would want to recognize these felons in order to avoid serving them. Not only is this an eye opening video about how our images are being utilized by social media networks and search engines, but it also makes us think about what apps we’re using when it comes to taking pictures of your faces (such as the app that makes you look old, or the website that sees who your celebrity look alike is.)

Detroit Become Human is a video game created in a third person point of view in which the player controls most of the character’s decisions. The video game allows the player to play as three characters, all of them being androids. The first one is a caretaker android named Markus who turns deviant and disobedient after gaining consciousness. Markus then tries to free others from abiding by their expected behavior. The second android was a police investigator named Connor, working with lieutenant Hanks who was an alcoholic that absolutely despised androids. Connor was mainly programmed to hunt down deviant androids such as Markus. The final character is an android named Kara. Kara is a housekeeper android that takes care of a little girl. In Markus’s case, he is the savior of all androids that gains consciousness and leads the rest of the androids into protests. Markus has the choice of whether or not to turn these deviant androids into becoming aggressive. On the other hand, Connor is an android that abides by his programmed behavior and may only deviate and become self-aware by the end of the game based on the player’s decision. Even though Connor expresses the most humanity, unlike other androids, when Connor dies mid game, he will instantly be replaced by another “Connor” and the game will continue as if he never died. This makes us question what we perceive as “alive”. This shows that even though we might feel as though Connor might be a human, this thought is debunked by the fact that he is replaceable and therefore nonhuman. The third android, which is Kara, who might gain consciousness in order to act as opposed to her programming and actually protect herself and the little girl from the abusive father or just act as expected of her and get destroyed by him. Additionally, if the player doesn’t let Kara become self-aware, Alice, the young girl she was supposed to protect, will die. After a while it’s revealed that Alice is in fact an android made to act as a replacement of the father’s daughter while her mother took her away. After this revelation, players might feel a sense of manipulation as some of the decisions made were to protect her as if she were a human. But that raises the question as to whether we would’ve treated the android differently and why? Would we have put the “life” of Kara at stake knowing that Alice was an android? Or would we have let them both die as they aren’t necessarily “alive”. Another concept depicted in the video game is the uncanny valley, since, during the game, players would come across multiple protests made by humans against androids due to people starting to not be able to tell the difference between humans and androids. This shows how humans tend to get uncomfortable and go to the extent of despising androids when they start to resemble humans way too much.

This episode starts off with a young couple, Martha and Ash, who have just recently moved to Ash’s remote family house. A day later, Ash dies in a car accident and Martha is left to mourn. Martha’s friend, Sarah, offers to sign up Martha up to something that might help her by allowing her to speak to Ash. In other words, it’s a type of technology that allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence simulating her late husband Ash (by analysing all of his previous interactions on his phone including messages and comments). Disregarding Martha’s heavy opposition towards signing up, Sarah sends Martha a message informing her that she signed her up. Shortly after that, Martha gets a message from her late husband Ash (and it sounds so much like him that Martha quickly gets attached). After returning from the doctor to check how her pregnancy is going, she drops and breaks her phone while calling Ash and he stops responding. Martha instantly gets a new phone and suddenly Ash starts calling. Martha starts crying and apologizing to Ash in which he replies “you don’t have to worry about breaking me, I’m not in that thing, I’m in the cloud.” Moreover, Ash introduces a new level in which he can be physically there with her. She does as he says so he becomes an physical android imitating and mimicking her late husband’s words and actions. Martha starts to get creeped out and annoyed by the android as he obeys exactly as she says and isn’t acting the same way Ash would. So when Martha orders him to jump off the cliff he obliges; she then gets angry at him and proves the point that he is different from the real life Ash, as Ash would’ve been scared and would have disobeyed her. In the end, Martha keeps the android in the attic and allows her daughter to see him only on the weekends and has an exception to see him on her birthday. In conclusion, this matches the definition of the uncanny valley as the android became the closest it could be to the real life human that Martha started getting uncomfortable and the android appears as repulsive and eerie.