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Argument Against AI Progression

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Throughout this class, we have had numerous discussions about the first amendment. Specifically, how our rights are violated and how we can protect them. All of the videos shown in the final prompt for this blog show extremely negative foresight for the future more focused on technology and greed. Looking closely at the video on AI, the concern voiced in the video is how AI will impact job loss. The point that I want to talk about is facial recognition in part 1 of the video. The video divulges into how heavily integrated AI is in everyday life in China. They also stated the fact that within two decades China has caught up with the US on AI technology. The part that was not explained was why the US has had setbacks in AI development because consumers are concerned about their privacy. I remember back when the original Amazon Echo came out in 2014 and there was about a 2 month period where everyone was amazed at how you could talk to a small tower from anywhere in your house and get a
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Blog #10

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  I thought that the AI video was really interesting. It was a strange combination of impressive and scary. I thought that the way China is using facial recognition as a way to pay for things is really fascinating. If scaled enough it could rid the need to carry around a credit card. My only concern is that if someone hacked into whatever system is used then they would have access to everyone’s financial information. Another thing that I thought was interesting were the automated trucks. Self driving cars is one thing, but self driving semi-trucks are a whole different story. All of the footage that was shown in the documentary was of the truck driving straight down a nearly empty highway. It made me curious of how well it could handle back roads or tight warehouse entrances. I was also shocked at how young the inventor was. Jumping back to China, I thought it was cool how integrated the systems were. It was almost scary how intertwined the AI network is, specifically regarding facial
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Blog #8

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  Personally, I think that US antiwar news is not featured on major networks because there are not a whole lot of current breaking stories. Another reason is that there is a history of heavy government backlash when the public makes any major conflicting movement that does not follow their agenda. I’ll go over my first thought first.  From what I have seen/can remember in my lifetime, major news networks are nationalistic and try to avoid backlash. This means that they will steer clear from government aggression and avoid taking sides on certain controversial topics. This is why you never see a news anchor or reporter say anything extremely negative about the Black Lives Matter movement. You would never hear an anchor say that the BLM movement is a waste of energy and that they should just deal with unfair treatment. That anchor would be dead within a week and the network would be blacklisted. This same idea goes for military activity. There were a ton of antiwar rallies and protests d
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Blog #7

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            I wrote a paper back in high school about the world wide web so I was happy to have learned more through our class presentations. The world wide web was created back in the late 1980s by Tim Berners-Lee. Tim worked for a company called Cern which as he called it an “extensive community” of thousands of scientists from all over the world. Since Cern was such a big company, it was a struggle to share information between coworkers. They needed a fast and automated way to share their findings and research with not only each other but also outside groups like universities and institutions. Hence the creation of the world wide web. The plan was never to expand the world wide web past the scientific field. However, once they realized its potential they opened it up to the public.  The first website made public was essentially an info screen that told users how the web worked and how to use it. This website was creatively named info.cern. The web was still in a very primitive sta
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Blog #6

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      The concept of the Diffusion Theory is how new communications technologies’ market share grows and shrinks based on popularization over time. The theory breaks the market share curve into 5 distinct segments to categorize people who use the new technology based on when they started compared to the size of the market share. The graph makes it a lot easier to understand. The “new” technology I will be reviewing is a very small and unknown app called TikTok.I’m choosing to review TikTok because I do not have the app.  TikTok launched in 2016 and was developed by a Chinese company called ByteDance. Most of its early users or “adopters” were in china. TikTok had its first user spike in late 2017 when it acquired a rival platform called Musical.ly. When Musical.ly was acquired it had over 200 million users and just under 50% of its app usage came from the US, all of which were transferred over to TikTok. Having adopted all of Musical.ly’s American influencers, the platform continued
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Blog Post #5 Internet Privacy

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      The debate between protection vs privacy has been around since the invention of surveillance technology. The issue with surveillance technologies is that when used properly they are very thorough and very invasive. Most people are under the impression that the internet only knows what you tell it. When considering the ethics of personal information being put on the internet it seems only fair that it be with the consent of the individual. Unfortunately, the thing that you intentionally make available on the internet is a very small part of how much it actually knows or thinks it knows about you.       Surveillance technologies track and catalogue everything it sees about you. The scary part is that you, or anyone for that matter, could have your information tracked without you ever knowing a thing. The thought gives you the same uneasy feeling as feeling like there is someone looking into your home from the window. Another scary thought is wondering how many lives could be ruine
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Blog Post #4 EOTO Motion Pictures

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      The history of Motion Pictures is one of constant growth and change. Whether it's new or upgraded technology or new techniques to please the cinematic eye, motion pictures are always evolving and improving.       The first moving picture was developed by William George Horner in the early 1850’s in the form of a Daedaleum. The Daedaleum was later modified, patented, and renamed to the Zoetrope in 1860. The first sequence of moving pictures were taken and assembled by Eadweard Muybridge . This process relied heavily on the visual illusion created by the zoetrope. In 1879, Muybridge and his partner Leland Stanford invented the zoogyroscope which was one of the first sequential photo projectors. Eleven years later, Thomas Edison and William Dickson announced the Kinetograph, the first motion picture camera. Shortly after, the duo released the Kinestoscope which rapidly projected the images on a screen. Two years later Edison started screening public films in Kinetograph Parlors
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