Today marks the completion of my final essay for my Digital Humanities class. Streaming has always been a passion of mine, as well as consuming unique content from platforms that allow streaming. It provides a unique style of communication between the user and the streamer. The sense of belonging and the community that can surround a great stream can also leave to friendships not accessible elsewhere. I am proud to have discussed the formation of this style of platform and I look forward to sharing that essay with you all.
Please feel free to enjoy the viewing of the essay here --> https://tinyurl.com/y9k4uqt5
Thursday, December 13, 2018
DH Final Essay
This is my final essay for my Digital Humanities class on artificial intelligence (AI). In this essay, you will read about the history of AI and get to see how much it has changed over the years. It also talks about the future of AI and how it could play a role in our lives. Hope you enjoy!
Essay:
https://pitt.box.com/s/2gvq8mycbyvwuehfy3vu75q4pe73vae1
Essay:
https://pitt.box.com/s/2gvq8mycbyvwuehfy3vu75q4pe73vae1
Erik Bengtson Essay Exhibit Reactions
Though all of the exhibits were interesting to me, one in particular stood out. I really enjoyed Mick's look at social media and its impact on society. Not only did I agree with Mick in that social media does negatively impact peoples lives, but he also made interesting points relating to how willing people are to confront others now. Social media has helped nurture a us vs. them political culture in our country, and because of our ability to view those with different opinions as the"other" we are now more comfortable with confrontation. We view it as either I will change their mind, or I will lash out to hurt them based off of their opinion. It is an unhealthy thing that in part is being helped along by social media.
The other exhibit that particularly stood out to me was Keisha's exhibit about technology in classrooms. I felt that she did a good job of not only showing what is possible now, but also with showing what is possible for the future.
The Impact of the Technological Singularity
For my final essay, I began writing about the positves and negative impacts that a technological singularity may bring to human society. As I did more research though, I learned that most of the experts within the AI field that predicted negative outcomes had viewed these outcomes as completely preventable. Being that the positive outcome of a singularity would essentially be a utopia free of death and disease, I decided to shift my focus to the negative outcomes on society. In the essay, I provide a look at where the experts think AI might take us, and I provide insight as to why it doesn't make sense for the human race as a whole to not proceed with precaution.
That is a link to my essay above, thanks to all for reading my blog this semester, and I look forward to writing some more on here in the future!!
Final Essay
Hey guys! I chose to write my final essay on the evolution of artificial intelligence. Through my essay it goes through how artificial intelligence was, how it is now, and the predictions on how it will be in the future. It is crazy to look at how far we have come from what it was, and it's also crazy to think about what it could turn into in the future! I also talk briefly about how awesome Ray Kurzweil is. Also in my essay I tell you my views on future intelligence, but you'll have to read my essay to find that out.
Throughout my essay are various different links to find out more information, or to see video clips of movies I used as examples. I hope you enjoy my essay and I hope your finals went well!
To view my essay: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_VX6ZKZg0ncoNAdFgU2HmDMwsVWR8nqc5rWMt7A7-fo/edit?usp=sharing
Throughout my essay are various different links to find out more information, or to see video clips of movies I used as examples. I hope you enjoy my essay and I hope your finals went well!
To view my essay: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_VX6ZKZg0ncoNAdFgU2HmDMwsVWR8nqc5rWMt7A7-fo/edit?usp=sharing
Reaction to the Essay Exhibits
Earlier last week, a few classmates were tasked with creating brief presentations that outlined the contents of their final paper for the class. Plenty of genres were investigated, from AI, to gaming and anxiety, as well as a distant reading of the entire harry potter series.
Altogether, it was uniquely interesting to see the views of my various classmates. Some iconic ones to name were Mick's and his discussion of how genuine people are through social media. And with this sense of genuine-ness he investigated how often people tend to research the content they absorb through Social media.
However, out of the plenty that I saw, none were more fascinating to me than Trey's Distant reading of the Harry Potter Series, and Sam's depiction of how games can help with anxiety disorders, such as, GAD.
Both presented their information uniquely. Trey had an HTML based Harry Potter distant reading in which anyone could pick apart any amount of the entire series. My question to him was whether or not he'd noticed patterns within the books, and if he did, if he thought they were done purposefully by J.K. or if they were done by her editors.
For Sam's piece, she expertly opened up her presentation with an animation that captured pretty much any gamer's workstation environment, as well as the emotions surrounding gaming. Her presentation was informative and very engaging which got a big plus from me! I look forward to seeing everyone's works!
Altogether, it was uniquely interesting to see the views of my various classmates. Some iconic ones to name were Mick's and his discussion of how genuine people are through social media. And with this sense of genuine-ness he investigated how often people tend to research the content they absorb through Social media.
However, out of the plenty that I saw, none were more fascinating to me than Trey's Distant reading of the Harry Potter Series, and Sam's depiction of how games can help with anxiety disorders, such as, GAD.
Both presented their information uniquely. Trey had an HTML based Harry Potter distant reading in which anyone could pick apart any amount of the entire series. My question to him was whether or not he'd noticed patterns within the books, and if he did, if he thought they were done purposefully by J.K. or if they were done by her editors.
For Sam's piece, she expertly opened up her presentation with an animation that captured pretty much any gamer's workstation environment, as well as the emotions surrounding gaming. Her presentation was informative and very engaging which got a big plus from me! I look forward to seeing everyone's works!
Friday, December 7, 2018
Essay Exhibit Reaction
The essay exhibit that stood out to me most was Mick Galbraith's. His essay exhibit was about facts in social media and how some of them are true but many people take everything they see on social media and brand it to be completely true 100% of the time. The part of his presentation that stuck out most to me was the political aspect. He talked about how politics and social media collide a lot. I completely agree, nowadays you constantly see things about politics on social media rather than the news and what you see is more often than not biased and unreliable. Mick's concept was very fascinating and I encourage you all to ask him about it if you see him.
I also created an essay exhibit. It was about artificial intelligence in the past, present, and future. I think it is quite interesting how far technology has come. If you want to check out my slide show, the link is down below.
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