I study the future. We should pay attention to avatars | Sinead Bovell | TEDxRutgersCamden

[@charleskozel]

I would like to live in a society where a persons identity is not why we judge that person or their associations. To that end I'm glad this technology makes it harder to trust someone just because of their percieved identity.

[@brittany3864]

Fascinating talk and really enjoyed this subject! These are integral questions we need to be asking ourselves before we’re too far gone….!!

[@robinmilton6261]

This is fascinating, thank you for your accessible and thought provoking questions about the future of our 'digital existence'.

[@wendydavis1973]

Yes sis, Ring The Alarm.

[@romanslama533]

Bright reflection about technology and its social impact 🧠

[@KenOtwell]

This is a complex question and I appreciate it being raised. I do not, however, presume cross-anything avatars are therefore wrong or inappropriate. For example, I occasionally play a female character in online role playing games, and its been extremely instructive to see how I'm treated by different groups. Plus it just gives me a chance to express that side of myself. No, we don't want exploitation - but we do want self-expression of all aspects of who we are and awareness of how those aspects are received - or not - by others. Complex issue.

[@surrender_thankyou]

This seems like a comment coming from a privilaged white male? Sorry to say.

[@KenOtwell]

​@@surrender_thankyou So, only privilaged white males have a desire to express different aspects of themselves? Less privilaged people want to stay inside the same skin 24/7 and just work at fitting whatever role they were born with? Awful constraining and imposing of you, don't you think?

[@carlovincent]

She could just easily be an avatar.

[@warrenjoseph76]

Yes I’ve been looking for clues all video since the grey nondescript background makes her look computer generated

[@marleny86]

Ha ha ha

[@FreeLance_60]

Identity is a social construct. Your character -- how you think, feel and act -- is what really matters.

[@zebinamastero7671]

How can I pray for you today? You were highlighted to me! Did you ever come to know Jesus as your Lord and Savior? I feel like He is truly knocking on your heart today🕊🙏😊

[@dontstealmydiamondsv3156]

And of course, social constructs reinforce themselves in culture with the full weight of society. I mean, social is in the name. You can't escape social constructs that are applied to you. I don't blame anyone for attaching themselves to these constructs because clearly there's a lot of external pressures and solidarity attributed to them. (I had more to write that would have extended my point in a different direction, but i accidentally sent and then lost my train of thought. So instead let's just say I encourage respectful discussion on the matter. we all have countless blind spots, so true understanding has to be a team effort no matter what)

[@motivationeyes2852]

*Everyone who reads this, we don't know each other and probably never will but I wish you all the best in life and all the luck in the world* 😔😔😔

[@naveenswarnkar4180]

As you also as a eternal giver!!! Good Luck Sir from India!!! No one like you!!!

[@q7jdwomfvkbj74]

God Be with you and us.

[@naveenswarnkar4180]

@@q7jdwomfvkbj74 Thankyou and love from India!!!

[@criscosta1129]

It depends on us, how to refuse it, avoiding give audience, don't let them use (abuse) someone's lack of discernment.

[@vviimmi]

Great topic. I predict that using an avatar's marketability will become a very standard and acceptable concept regardless of ethnicity, we see it a lot today too in art... video games... music? it will eventually stop being taken as cultural appropriation as avatar developers will be forced to diversify and be more versatile with their creations due to the backlashes of the issues spoken about here.

[@tessy4018]

Been following her work for a while. She’s great.

[@SAMMY_ELWAY]

Beautiful and insightful.

[@corenchiereynaldo2417]

In 1 year after this video been uploaded, we will learn that the FEMALE in this video was really the most advance Avatar available in April 2022.

[@MW-sw7so]

All that aside, this lady speaking is incredibly beautiful.

[@agentone8511]

I can't study the avatar because he disappeared 100 years ago nowhere to be found when we needed him most.

[@robertpittard1]

Bwahahahaha

[@LibraOnAmission7]

George Orwell predicted it very well..

[@importantmancommenting9336]

What did he say?

[@LibraOnAmission7]

@@importantmancommenting9336 it's all in 1984, suggest a read..

[@fanaticforager6610]

Represent 🦋ithouT Consent, breeds Contemp🌴👁‍🗨

[@emilysanchez765]

❤️❤️

[@hts1663]

Okumak sizi sadece ayağa kaldırır ama bunu uygulamanız sizi yürütür..

[@sandra.helianthus]

Such an important talk and excellently spoken 🌻

[@MrYatesj1]

Not all computer science professionals and graphics artist who create avatars are "white men", BUT I totally agree there is cultural exploitation happening with how technology (some of which is avatar based) is used within advertising. Not paying actors, models, photographers etc etc is simply a business decision. How to control the the use of computer generated images is the big question, especially when it's impossible to tell if it is an actual person or an avatar. The world we live it gets progressively stranger by the day.

[@goawaygrey]

Alan turning predicted it quite well

[@SharpDesign]

My brother and I found the new avatar. An airbender named Aang.

[@ro_dent]

Great video ! Best educational Channel, on KZbin.

[@awokeorasleepgodsaves.]

are you an avatar, or a real life person in this computer generated video?

[@brythegamer]

Excellent work, pretty interesting

[@classysu]

Did we miss something from 12:52 - 12:53 ?

[@johnjames732]

we are the avatar for the annunaki

[@ashleypadgett4280]

You're close...but more precisely, we are avatars for demonic spirits. They wear us like skins.

[@nicholascurran1734]

I was wary the direction this would go, but I like the talk. Many other things that arise with this tech.

[@voyd1507]

I do not!

[@prashanttiwarihardik6091]

Good one.

[@lorelei8469]

Is she a Avatar too ?😄

[@selvarasusankar1374]

Great work

[@major2571]

For someone who study’s the future you’ve missed the last 20 years. I learned very early on in chat rooms and the like that an avatar is merely the representation that person wishes to present to the world. I have to advocate for the possible positive this could represent rather than the dystopian future you are presenting here. Representation helps but it does not make the person achieve anything. Maybe the advent of avatars would help people look past the surface level differences like race. Yes it helps in some context but you can go deeper to the human being and I don’t see how perpetuating the old paradigms that aren’t working would help us use these avatars. Instead we should focus on inclusion and understanding individual differences be it at a cultural level or individual. You can’t make every company and every situation diverse to do this. You need to give people the tools to understand each other.

[@lcifermorningstar191]

Soooo much to unpack here. However, I think META is nothing more than the old 2nd Life video game.

[@10aDowningStreet]

yeah... and I thought Bitcoin was a digital monopoly money experiment and, at best, a fad. Had I took it seriously I'd have been a multi millionaire today. It doesn't pay to undersestimate tech and underestyimate it most of us do.

[@claibornec7937]

This reminds me of the TV series called, West World .... on HBO

[@wolfferoni]

I never really thought about this to this extent. This sort of exploitation is so dystopic

[@samanthachurch]

I don't understand why we keep looking at technology and saying, "Look, this IS going to rule your life." Says who? We haven't agreed to live like this, and we don't have to. We CAN and should live our lives in real, physical spaces. We CAN have real, face to face relationships, and get our info from actual human beings in our own communities. Choose to live your lives. We have to stop relying on the internet for basic human functioning. Focus on your physical community. Go to live events. Shop local, utilize your library and the trained research professionals who work there. We do not have to he owned and controlled by the tech industry. We really don't. Live your real lives and all of this goes away. It's within our control to not be lazy, blind people who choose convenience over enlightenment at every turn. We don't have to he that, and we mustn't. All we have to do is participate in our own lives and we're free. Things won't be easier. But they will be better. "Easier" and "better" have never been synonymous.

[@javianiki5886]

In your world, who gets to say: -What roles must an actor play? They're all "fake" btw, hence "acting". -Wich picture must anyone use as an avatar? They're all a graphic image of an "account", accounts are just digital data, not physical individuals, hence 1 person can have many accounts. -Why a photo must be "real" to pay for it? All are images; I like'em, I support the creator, even if it's using an AI or editor. If I take a pic, and use digital filters to get my teeth white, a tan and a square face I can't use it because it's not "real"? -It does not "take" business opportunities, it creates more. I can't modify my face easily to be "attractive" in certain groups, but If I can create an specific avatar, I can grow my social media business. You're scary imho, because idk if you realize it, but you're trying to make racial distinctions and privileges in digital files. They're just files, no race, gender, anything. Why bring that to a digital world? As a developer I can't fathom a day when I have to store files by race like a "mexican" (I'm mexican) document to give it a different treatment or check if It can use "compa" as an adjective. Why promote inequality to digital?!

[@HULKITUP]

Great presentation Sinead

[@Zhandoskz]

I thought that in the end she will say that she is avatar

[@ronlight7013]

I don’t hear a single issue here that hasn’t been identified in other forms of visual media over the past 50 years, thus the issues addressed in this lecture don’t really break new ground or advance the discussion beyond what’s come before.

[@operationNOBO]

This is not the way.

[@charbeltannios546]

Gd explanation and presentation . Thank you 👏👏👏👍

[@Wreckz_Tea]

You don't study the future. You study present and past to make educated guesses about the future

[@superinquisitor]

Fake deep.

[@lightgolden5337]

People don’t have jobs nor food. What do you study exactly? What is your salary?

[@OakInch]

Here we go again...

[@gregparrott]

I never thought much of avatars, regardless of the exploitation angle. As with dark money entering politics (no thanks to the Supreme Court's 'Citizens United' verdict), the REAL identity person / entity / financial backing, should be public and transparent enough that the claimed identity can be verified as accurate and reasonably complete.

[@wAk3_Th3_P3opLe]

This is a Suttle way to slowly bring the truth to the general public, us, the people. They do it in micro doses. Think about what we have access to. You have the latest and greatest phones and electronics but the government and those in power knows this is old technology. What we get as new is tens years behind of what they are using and working on. Think about it. She talks avatars but how many of you realize there was no audience? If movies that look realistic are what we watch, how is this different? Yes the person speaking is well spoken and informed in a proper manner but you need to look passed that. Think outside the box. There are clones right? There are side by sides of CGI and real people and it's hard to determine which is real and which is not. I'm not here to argue with anyone, I'm just here to help you realize that just because are told sometimes doesn't mean there isn't a hidden agenda behind it. Remember 20 or so years ago and the cloned sheep, WTF have you heard lately? We have been groomed since birth to be naive in some sense, how you feel or what you want to believe is up to you but are you sure you are the one doing that or did social conditioning pursue you?

[@alfidotv]

you mean the blue guy avatars? or the anime?

[@carsonrhoades4857]

Sounds like proof that actions make a bigger difference than personal identification. Be yourself by acting like who you should be, not by simply existing. Existence isn’t unique, and there isn’t a single special thing about how, where, when, or under what circumstances you came to be. What matters is what you do now. The me it looks like this model is doing more with no existence than this futurist is with one. But I digress.

[@lenjivko3227]

avatar is india word "god on earth" so wrong word chosen for virtual id.

[@juancarlosllampahuayta7737]

Amei garota

[@CMDUrbanTactics]

It seems a new form of slavery has been devised by those who want to be us but ain't us....

[@vivekcreate3455]

Good night 🌃🌃🌃

[@neffetSnnamremmiZ]

I would "travel" through an avatar, it's more save 😊

[@Namtucket]

Enlightening.

[@SquishyOscar]

OMG I’ve got Bovell in my name as well lol

[@evadebruijn]

🙏❣️✌️

[@johnjames732]

she is an avatar for mark zuckerburg

[@awokeorasleepgodsaves.]

can you tell me who is attempting to throw a monkey-wrench again in, or into mother nature's program?

[@rodaxel7165]

I've seen her on Wired. I don't remember a single thing she talked about.

[@alfredaguilar1135]

I'm glad I'm a mediocre chef who didn't go to college.

[@sarahm6234]

Creepy to me.

[@JK_JK_JK_JK]

How does someone Study the Future?!?! 🤔🤨🧐 Is it like a university degree?!?! 🤔

[@OakInch]

When your whole shtick is inventing racism, you also have to invent credentials to justify it. Because really, there is no justification for race baiting.

[@w.a.l6518]

How did you study to be foolish?

[@username----------]

NFTs are the futurr

[@rightright6582]

Why? Gas is crazy

[@baptizedascribe8459]

The scriptures tell us the future.

[@jzmcgriggs8652]

Welcome to the "Woke Avatars" Ted Talk

[@toocutepuppies6535]

Kinda like early Hollywood. It's not right, but it's not new.

[@feedbackzaloop]

Forget ethnic groups, avatars often misplace biological species! Secondly, when some invention is profiting off of somebody else's whatever there is, it is a clear case for copyright law. Yes, in cases of cultural appropriation the law itself isn't clear, but so it is disregarding appropriation being digital or analog

[@userct]

there is no such concept in real life as cultural appropriation LOL

[@deaddownduck3998]

🐞❤️🤝😍😎

[@Semper_Iratus]

The future ends in a giant ash heap.

[@brianbrino4310]

What’s the importance of the color of their skin? We should start looking at the future thinking of persons humans and how pretty all colors are beautiful and equal! Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and all colors should enhance beautiful beings as women and men are! Thank you!

[@Seraphdivine]

Deceite Is Very A Real Thing... People Profit Through Lies And The World Seems To Be Okay With This. Moreover, You Speak Very well And You Do Much Research. I Admire The Woman You Have Become. Notwithstanding, I wish You Would Invest More Time In The Knowledge Of Yahweh, Who Is The Most High God Of Heaven And Earth, And All That There Is... I Think You Could Truly Be A Vessel, A Voice To Wake And Edify The People On Things Pertaining To God And Life, In Accordance To The Will Of Yahweh... Otherwise Its Just Pointless Talk And Speculation With Little To No Soultion To The Matter At Hand Concerning Technology And How The People Communicate With It. Anyone Can Observe And Report, But How Many People Truly Have Something To Say Effective Pertaining To Life 🤔

[@avicennam7708]

If the creator was smart he should use a pen name.

[@superinquisitor]

Youre smarter than the creator. You should spearhead the project, in fact.

[@rexmann1984]

That feeling when you got first world problems because of white men's creations. Oof

[@nufh]

Hatsune Miku.

[@Uditha]

Any one whom learned the art of astrology can tell the probable future of a person. Its really easy.

[@userct]

haha totally agree!

[@dijahsyoutubechannel]

ya know, im good on this whole avatar thing. personally, no thanks.

[@Jc0167]

U r right… but what if we were an avatar already….😏

[@astrojazzman]

“The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.” - SUN RA 🪐🛸

[@MrYatesj1]

But tomorrow is the future. So the light future cast a shadow on itself?

[@BeytullahŞahinYT]

Çghb'deki siyahi kız değil mi la bu kadın

[@didepux251]

So sad. Kim press the button.

[@TheSweetnsalty1]

Pretty creepy

[@AzazelsWings]

Don't you think it's pretty pretentious to start your presentation by saying you study the future and in the same breath state, that if anyone claims to know about the future they should run..... maybe it's just me, but I predict people won't take you very serious... in the future.

[@userct]

This is ridiculous, I wonder how can someone come up with so much BS and racial obcessions like this person. These kind of people have no future in AI, AI will help humanity going forward and creating a balanced society, first understand AI and then talk about it! BTW, this video has 3K dislikes vs 2.2K likes (use a chrome extension to see deslikes).

[@superlbc]

"As a futurist". I find her so narrow minded and unidirectional that I am even offended she calls herself a "futurist"

[@10aDowningStreet]

I agree, futurists are visionaries by defenition, this woman i really myopic and over-focused ona tiny woke issue, thet's her lens for everything. It's total nonsense and I think shed be better suited to data entry over educated , creative thinking.

[@vviimmi]

I think it's great to see people like her worry about this kind of stuff. I highly doubt this is the only thing going through here mind- opening insight to things people really don't think about... like when facebook sold data? thinking about things like this helps people expect what could be coming and avoid it or inspire its development even further.

[@sinbadsailor1963]

Sadly, she wants her racialist, tribalist mentality to dominate our future. For humanity's sake, let's hope her obsession with artificial, unscientific racial classification does not shape our future.

[@No1karez]

Why can't everyone just be themselves and stay in their own lane.. smdh

[@Kruse1]

She's hot.

[@Blackhawk_Snape]

Avatar

[@danielechristine7882]

She starts her video with an insulting comment based on her narrow perspective and then expects her audience to have respect for her message? Hmmmm?

[@paulhaube]

A human is inept at studying the future since it cannot master the present. Mastery of causation makes a difference. The speaker plays with fogs. Boring.

[@greenlifeshorts6911]

Second

[@Matowix]

I clicked cause she was attractive

[@Tacoman1967]

I'm 2 minutes in and done.

[@10aDowningStreet]

me too but turns out shes just another woke race grifter, no ammount of good looks can make uo for that

[@Tacoman1967]

@@10aDowningStreet exactly. I go limp.

[@Matowix]

@@10aDowningStreet that's when I clicked off when I realised that too.

[@Princess_charming609]

First!

[@anon123214]

We should pay attention to anime avatars. The people who use them are misrepresenting anime characters like Goku, and are able to exploit his ableism by doing so. 🤣 I get where she's going, but on an individual level this is cringe. You're attributing biased traits to an avatar that otherwise would not be in the minds of others. Your thoughts: 'She is a model that has the potential to be a super model and she lives in africa.' My thoughts: 'Pretty girl, I'll use her to represent me.'

[@YS-nx1hb]

びみょう

[@kazumakiryuu2668]

liar

[@yowwwwie]

avatars as a form of slavery..... יוי

[@khalidaxe]

a futurist like stark? nice . let’s see the tech she’s pioneered towards that future that gives her the credibility to label herself as a futurist

[@vardaan5797]

i agree.

[@ChristianPattison]

Futurism is a focus on events and trends of the future. To be a futurist means you are interested in the future and possibly predicting it. It has nothing to do with innovation and technology in that sense. You don’t have to be a creator or inventor of some great futuristic technology to be a futurist. Before even flat out saying she was a futurist, she essentially defined herself as a futurist. Make sure you understand the concept you’re complaining about before you complain about it. Peace and love.

[@10aDowningStreet]

​ @Christian Pattison You're spot on. Khalid is essentially saying a poet isnt a real poet if they didnt manufacture the paper in their poetry book. total disjointed nonsense to be frank