Artifical Intelligence and Robotics

I think robots can do a lot of the same things as humans, but not all. I personally do not like the idea of these new robotic things, for example the robotic care. It is kind of cool that they are working on cars that can drive themselves and according to the article written by Rachelle Dragani these robotic cars could majorly reduce the number of traffic accidents. In a way I could possibly see this because the car would obey street signs and speed limits, but what if it malfunctions. In the article written by Leon Neyfakh he mentions, "What if the car screws up.?' This is a very good point because nothing is 100% reliable. I have a feeling that fully robotic cars would wind up causing more of a problem then good. Neyfakh also mentions in his article that if the robotic car hit someone, who would be responsible the car of driver. It is a very hard question and I feel like this would be a reoccurring problem. I feel they would malfunction and when that happens it would probably cost a fortune to fix. I just do not like the idea of robotic cars.
I think that both robots and humans make errors and either one of them is perfect. Therefore I really do not know who is more likely to make more errors.

Creativity and Social Media

For this assignment, I decided to upload one of my videos from my phone to YouTube. This video is from the Luke Bryan Concert I went to over the summer and although it is not the best video, I took it more for the music. Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, and Cole Swindell, who are all country artists, did a medley of songs to non country music. I just thought it was cool.

For this assignment I downloaded the YouTube capture App. This allows you to upload or take videos and it puts it directly on your YouTube account because that is what it is linked to. After I downloaded the App and plugged in my information, I went to my videos and selected this one. The I went to privacy settings and clicked unlinked, so only people with the web address can view it. Then I hit upload. It took a couple minutes, but then it was uploaded to YouTube. That was about it.

Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWedIkywDA

Social Media

I am on two social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter. I prefer Facebook because I know how to use it. I have never really gotten into Twitter. I do not even really do a lot on Facebook, I mainly use it as a way to share pictures with friends or like things to get updates.

Virtual worlds is usually a computer-based simulated environment, through which users can interact with one another. In the one article by Tutton, it talks a lot about using virtual worlds for work meetings. Instead of meeting face to face they can all come together and meet on a network. The article also mentions that they have had, "A whole range of environments, from auditoriums and collaboration pods to social areas where the avatars could pick up a beer around a log fire, or walk around a sculpture park and talk." I think that would be pretty fun and it would probably be more exciting interacting with them in more of a game setting because it is better then sitting in a meeting. People may actually pay attention more.

I also found the article by Nicole Saidi very interesting. She mentions that, ""He was able to use chat rooms and soon realized that people used symbols to express themselves: the smiley signs, the angry signs, hug signs, etc., to enhance the text. He went on to say that subconsciously his brain was learning about communication from these sessions of chat." I think this is a really good tool to help those who do have certain disorders. It is good that technology is helping with that.

I am not really sure what I would like to be in my virtual world.

The World Wide Web

I think that the future of the world wide web is going to be very interesting. In the article, "Google's New Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, is Building your Cybernetic Friend," it mentions that, "Eventually Google will understand why users are searching for information and provide them with answers they didn’t even know they needed." In a way this would be really cool, but I feel as the World Wide Web advances, more and more of our personal information is getting out there as well. As also mentioned in this article, "Ray Kurzweil, wants to build a search engine so sophisticated that it could act like a ‘cybernetic friend,’ who knows users better than they know themselves." I would find it creepy if I did not even have to ask the question to have this cybernetic friend know what I want to ask.

'The Cloud' is used for storing and accessing data and programs over the internet instead of your computer's hard drive. I knew of the cloud, but really did not know what exactly the purpose of it was, but after reading the Cloud Computing article, I have a better understanding. The article states that, "The change will affect all levels of the computational ecosystem, from casual user to software developer, IT manager, even hardware manufacturer." I kind of thought it would really only affect businesses and things like that, but after reading the article I realized it is not.