Monday, July 07, 2025

Story Post: Retrospective Reconstructor for Bicultural Misunderstandings

Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 21:55:06 UTC

Intended for high stakes corporate negotiations, our two-camera facial scanner with cutting-edge expression recognition technology and attached universal language model can determine both when one participant in a discussion offended or confused another to within a tenth of a second, as well as the specific vague communication or linguistic or cultural differences that led to it, within four minutes of the offense.

Comments

DeactivatedUser4498:

08-07-2025 05:16:35 UTC

Score 5

Josh: he/they

08-07-2025 07:53:34 UTC

Score 1. I can’t see myself trusting AI to interpret human social cues reliably.

Kevan: Yard he/him

08-07-2025 10:30:22 UTC

Score 3. Sadly all too plausible for the near future. I saw an ad the other day for automatic video business call translation, as if cultural nuance was irrelevant.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

08-07-2025 15:35:54 UTC

Score 3

Clucky: he/him

08-07-2025 20:35:54 UTC

Score 2 definitely seems a bit too AI focused

Darknight: he/him

08-07-2025 23:48:52 UTC

Score 3

aria: she/they

09-07-2025 15:57:09 UTC

Score 3. If machines are doing the translating, this is definitely needed.

Chiiika: she/her

09-07-2025 16:26:06 UTC

Score 4 - this is actually pretty hard for AI to do imo and probably would still be a open problem for some time

JonathanDark: he/him

10-07-2025 21:51:19 UTC

AI is exactly the type of futuristic device we should be pondering, whether we like it or not. Score 4

JonathanDark: he/him

10-07-2025 21:54:39 UTC

This Backronym is now closed.

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