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Jesse Rice-Evans (she/they) on What you can improve on?
CLOs?
What would you do differently?
What sections were difficult, and why?
What aspects are super good?
Assign a grade and explain why you deserve this.
Weijun Huang on After watching Ex machine, I realized that the research on robots is actually accompanied by danger. After all, robots are intelligent. If robots have developed and co-exist in our daily life, we may not find them abnormal. They have the potential for self-awareness, like Ava. In the movie, ava can feel other emotions. She’s like a normal person. She has been hiding her feelings, then pretending that she has no feelings to gain Caleb’s trust, and then taking advantage of him. And in other movies, AI robots take over the earth and control humans. Because in the movie, Ava fully demonstrates the terrible power of robots in terms of emotional control. It makes me worry about our real future. After all, our technology is becoming more and more advanced, and I believe we will start to try to develop humanoid robots in the near future, which makes me a little uneasy. If something unexpected happens while setting up the code, leading to more Ava like this, will it lead to humans being dominated by robots? According to some of the details in the movie Ex machine, there’s another problem. Ava just wants freedom or might have other ambitions.
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ZhiHong Li on After watching Ex Machina I think it is very interesting movie. Although I hear about the AI but the movie make it seem more like human that’s my first movie I watch related to the AI. And in the movie AI Ava can feel Celeb’s emotion which it very seem impossible. As we all know how could it be possible for machine to become a human that feel other’s emotion in that case it seem to be the AI can replace human being. But I can’t truthy tell if she understand the emotion of people. One thing that I’m sure about is that she want to run always from the lab and let other human being helping her which is kind of interesting point that present in the movie and there is human helping her. I wonder the what did the creator of this AI did to her and what kind of code did the creator put into her make her have the idea and the concept for escaping. The creator of this AI must be so smart that the AI itself have it’s own idea and thinking about itself. I wander what kind of idea the author of the movie trying to express, is it that the AI are too smart will replace the human or the AI is also need freedom. Therefore, I conclude that AI for the future development if they are as smart as human or better then should we have put the code to prevent it to take over that will be a question to think about before anything. And we should also think about what should we put AI for and if they are smarter will they rewrite the code. So AI will be our friend or not will be the question we need to think about.
Alexander Rao on Ex Machina- Many interesting layers in this movie obviously. A few that stick out to me…
Firstly, I love the betrayal of Caleb by Ava. It is so elegantly represented. Caleb wakes up from a daze and Ava only has to ask him to stay put and wait for her to lock him inside when she’s done getting her skin on. The fact that he is so trusting of her is naïve at best and outright dumb in my personal opinion. However, I can imagine this happening. The trust we place in machines being more perfect than their creators is astounding. In many ways it makes sense but in a basic manner of thinking, it is clearly unlikely. Here we see that the apex of Nathan’s building project did exactly what a scared human in a trap would do…save themselves. In this case quite savagely and without regard for anyone else.
Second, the AI box metaphors are all over the place. Ava’s room is a literal one but the rest of the house is Caleb’s box. Once outside of the controlled box, the experiment becomes unpredictable. This is the basic caution of anyone who would build AI, that you want to keep something potentially superior and unknown handicapped, just in case all goes to hell in a hand basket! This is the kind of thing that makes me feel like we should slow our roll as a species and not try and create a new top predator for ourselves to run from. People have a habit of creating conflicts for themselves when they get bored and don’t have any environmental conflicts. This habit could be potentially realized in a disastrous way with AI. I hope that it does not!
Alexander Rao on When I was a kid, I was in the Boy Scouts. One of my favorite things as a kid was the Pinewood Derby that we had once a year. I love racing, cars, and building things. I never made it nearly as technical as I am now though. Treating the design of the cars like a laboratory experiment changes the game, but I am still happy reminiscing on the good old days…and working out technical designs like this one 🙂
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Jaspreet Jaswal on In the text ‘Algorithms of Expressions’ by Safiya Noble, Noble analyzes on the schematics of algorithms and how its values shape the social reformations involving racial profiling. At first, Noble describes the schematics by introducing the concept of how algorithms exhibit a sense of visibility which is then perceived by the society in a decision-making way. Noble gave examples of those who were involved in the “decision making” by describing various professions such as bankers and real estate agents and how they manufacture inequalities in these fields. Noble gave an example by stating- “people of color are more likely to pay higher interest rates or premium just because they’re black or Latino” ( Safiya 1). This statement shows how the mobilization algorithms rather demarcate the border of inequality rather than allowing everyone, no matter their creed or race to flourish with their profound knowledge. Noble continues her argument by stating that even on the internet, racial discrimination is evident through coding in technology. Personally, this hit me since it’s honestly crazy how people are finding ways to converse these unethical statements and put it out as an anonymous user. As technology seems to advance, the creation of artificial intelligence will also grasp onto these statements. As Noble describes the work field later, another aspect that stood out to me was Google’s wage gap between men and women. Now, prior to reading Noble’s text, I knew wage gaps existed, but I didn’t know that a multibillion-dollar company really discriminates its workers based on gender. As google advances their technological field, its honestly shocking that google workers are supporting the insane claims made by James Damore of how women are inexperienced and inferior in terms of software programming. Using search engines to promote racial slurs is honestly disgusting and should be stopped right away
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