The wrong GUY!

The story of Guy Goma is not one of stupidity. A former taxi driver from the French Congo, Mr Goma was at the BBC TV centre for an interview, in the hope of becoming an IT assistant. So when a producer came up to him and said, “Guy Kewney, isn't it? About the IT thing?" he agreed because he thought she had just pronounced his surname badly. 

Mr Goma was rushed into a studio, where he found himself in front of the cameras, having questions thrown at him. He didn't expect at all that the guy who would be sitting on a nearby sofa was also called Guy. In fact, Guy Kewney was an IT expert and so he was going to be interviewed by BBC.

Goma says that before joining the studio, what the people from BBC were doing to him weren't normal but he told himself that it might be part of the interview. So once he knew the TV channel had made a mistake he tried to answer all questions and stayed calm.

Viewers of this channel have reacted with a mixture of delight and sympathy to the key moment when Mr Goma was introduced with the incorrect name. Nevertheless, after this big mistake, he was finally taken to his interview for the IT post. He didn't get the job but is now a demand as a celebrity.

The first time I saw this news I couldn't stop laughing. It was very funny to see an innocent man who was going into an interview for applying a job (that he couldn't get at the end) and was taken to a studio as he were an IT expert. Poor man! Even if he managed to answer some questions, his face when we was being interviewed was... there's no words to describe that face. Here is the video that shows his face and a little summary of this story.

In this case, I haven't learnt any new words.  You can read more about it here

A strange hotel

Japan is known, among other things, for its strange inventions such as musical toilets and 3D printed fake food replicas. Now, they have surpassed themselves creating a hotel run entirely by robots in Nagasaki. In this hotel, called Henn-na Hotel (“Strange Hotel”), robots will guide you to your room, clean it, bring your luggage into it… Also, thanks to internal sensors and an adaptive artificial intelligence, these humanoid robots will maintain eye contact with you, blink, breathe and answer your questions. They can speak in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English.

In addition, this hotel has door locks that use face-recognition technology on guests, Iphone's X technology. Also, room temperatures are controlled by body heat sensors that will automatically adjust comfort levels.

The use of robots and the automated services is done to reduce labor costs, save energy, reduce waste and develop a self-sufficient hotel powered by solar energy and machines. The hotel has 144 rooms and the price for staying a night there is $73.

In my opinion, I found this a very interesting, fascinating (and a bit strange) thing. It’s an original and different hotel, not very expensive and the rooms are nice. But, I think this is a little bit creepy. In addition, it’s always nice to walk into a hotel and receive a smile from the receptionist, not an artificial “hello” without feelings. Also, there are a lot of people without a job, and if we keep putting robots doing human’s jobs there will be even more people being unemployed. Robots are replacing people, and I don’t think this is a great idea.

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Stephen Hawking: AI could end up with humans.

Stephen Hawking is a very important Physic-Mathematic who has worked his whole life cosmology and univerasl origin projects. Now that he is older he has been working on quite philosophical problems that may be createb by science, or may affect its action. An example of this fact would be the artificial inteligence. This human creation also known as AI consists on giving intelligence to something which hasn't been born in a natural way. With every single statement that comes out from his mouth, he clearly shows his rejectment to this part of the scientific development. He purposes that this androids or cyborgs will end up with humanity. The fact that we give intelligence to something that can improve itself it's dangerous because if we give them a conscience we are giving them an instinct, and the first of all the instinct "laws" is that the strongest controls the weakest. This is why Hawkings thinks that if we create inmortal creatures, made of steel and for militar purposes they are going to develop their missions against their creators who try to reduce the limits of their self improvement, the humans.

 I think that humans, now, want to keep on a progressing way that is just used for destroying capabilities. If you go to the technological department of some newspapers, they just talk about robots created with militar purposes. This is what I think that is very dangerous. Robots with killing capabilities may not be able to decide if they kill or not, or even to auto improve themselves but this, by now, is seen as positive progress. We have created this beings with our own mistakes rather than our capabilities, so they will tend to make the same mistakes we used to. Let's consider a prehistorical example. Homo Sapiens was nothing more than brutal mutant of Homo neanderthalensis species. It was quite more developed so it could easily improve better than his brother in arms. We all know the end of this story now, because there are no neanderthals in our society (not in the evolutive way at least).

To sum up, I completely disagree with the development of AI, and I think that humans may not give their concessions to things created with their same standards.

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Ayslam denied

This news is about two boys who asked for asylum in the US, but they were refused. One of them had been threatened by some gang members; they said they were going to kill him. In front of this situation, the boy decided to leave his home and go to the United States. When he and another boy were at the US border, they explained their situations to the officials, but they didn’t seem to care that much and told them to wait outside. They waited all day long, until one lawyer who was crossing the border with another client saw them and help them.

The worst of all is that this is not an isolated case, but the number of cases is increasing, especially since Trump became the president of the United States. In theory, the law says that if someone arrives at the border asking for asylum, CBP agents have to send the person to a specialist to examine his or her situation, but this is not always like that. More and more, US agents are illegally denying entrance to people asking for asylum.

Even though these prohibitions are increasing, they are not only a result of Trump’s policy, but they were there before he came to power. The writer of that news says that this is a serious problem and that the government has to do something about it. They have to investigate and punish the agents who have behaved illegally.

This news shows the violation of one human right: the right to have asylum. As it says, everybody has the right to have asylum in cases of danger, no matter where they come from. Of course, I am against what these US agents are doing to people who ask for asylum. Imagine you're in their situation. That in your country you have been threatened with death and then when you ask for asylum they deny it. But what upsets me the most is why the US agents do not let Mexican people pass it because of racist reasons. Unfortunately, there are a lot of racist people in the USA (and in the world too), as it shows the fact that Trump is the president. I hope one day we get over racism, which is one of the main reason why most of the human rights are not coming into effect right now.

Link: :www.hrw.org/news/2017/05/03/us-turning-away-asylum-seekers-mexican-border

SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon in 2018

The new explains that two unnamed people have already paid for places in a trip that will take them around the moon, but without landing. So late next year they will fly with SpaceX.

Many people are fascinated about the possibility of being able to travel to space in less than three years, it will be available for everyone who can afford it. But it is expected the cost of the space travel will eventually come down and become something which is affordable to more than only the very wealthy.

Traveling to the space is not easy, they have warned that that it is a week of hard travel and it could feel like a long time in a small capsule which is for seven people and it will feel small even if just two or three are traveling there.

Also the ones that want to travel to the space have to support a long training programme of two years before they are allowed. Tourist will need to know how to operate key parts of the spacecraft in the case that there is an emergency or issue in communication with the mission control and they will be able to keep themselves and the spacecraft safe.

I will really like to travel to the moon but I don’t think it is enjoyable to be in a very small capsule for a week. It’s a great idea that they allow citizens to take these amazing trips to the space, but I hope one day the prices are low enough for everyone to travel to the moon and not just the very wealthy.

The new word I learned from the news has been spacecraft

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What I love and I hate about the weather in my country

All countries around the world have different weather. Likely, here, in Spain, the weather is very good. It's usually hot in summer and cold in winter. Would other countries like Switzerland have the weather?

I think that having this climate is perfect. For example, when summer comes to us, it means that we can begin going to the beach as it's always sunny. Also, school classes finish and that's a good point for students (myself included!). So it is at this moment when you meet your friends and can have fun.

However, there are some negative aspects about the weather in my country. The place where I live, Empuriabrava, is a zone located in the north-east of Spain. Because of our location, we have a kind of wind called "tramuntana". "Tramuntana" is horrendous, in my opinion. Once it comes, everybody seems crazy and that's why we often say that this kind of wind affects our body, because of our behaviour. Sometimes, it rains, but I don't consider that a negative point. When I'm sad, the sound of the water drops help me to relax.

So I can honestly say that we can't disagree with the weather we have. Most of the countries around the world would like to have it, central europe countries for example.

The firefighters

In this case I'd like to talk about the job of the firefighters. I think their job is amazing even if they work less, if we compare it with other common jobs. Some people say that their job shouldn't be as remunerated as it is and that's why I would like to comment.

First of all, their job provides us a service, as most of the jobs that exist in the planet. Their objective is to provide us security and to try to avoid damage that affects to nature. Of course, they try to put out fires. The problem that some people see in their job is the money they get; they get between 29.000 and 42.000 euros per year in Catalunya. It may seem a big amount of money keeping in mind that they work, for example, three months of the twelve that a year has. But, I think that this as well paid as it is because their job is really hard and they risk their lifes. We have to keep in mind that a fire is a thing that can happens at any point of the day so they must be prepared to attend to any fire (at least they should). Also, working on these disasters require people who have a good physical condition. The events they have to beat aren't easy. Firefighters, to access to the firefighter's school, have to have, of course, knowledge about medical processes, languages (because they can be send to any part of the EU- in case they take the "oposicions" in Spain-). Another challenge they have to achieve is driving weight vehicles such as fire trucks. As most of the jobs, to get into the school these people have to sit an exam. Once one has completed the seven phases he becomes a firefighter.

So now that you have heard a little of it, what do you think about firefighters and their job?