Hi, I’m Michael and I’m a first year student planning to take computer science as a major through faculty of arts. I am also taking Japanese language courses, and in my free time I play guitar, draw, and consume a fair amount of video games, anime, and manga, though these are of course all limited by school.
Due to multiple concussions from hockey limiting my ability to socialize in person, I mostly talk to friends online and I hope that can help me in this course for the parts regarding how technology and communication intermingle.I hope to learn more effective ways of communicating through images in this course, for the purpose of use online for fun or for any future job applications it may have.
The lecture video on automating jobs mentions universal basic income as a possible solution for the lack of jobs expected from less jobs requiring human labour, which was honestly my first thought regarding how society would need to shift to function in a largely automated market. I recommend watching the video from that channel on UBI as well, though I personally feel like there would likely be more pros than cons. (I also think that just from a moral standpoint more effort should be put into taking care of people regardless of wealth, since it’s pretty backwards that there are people struggling to survive when others possess more money than they could ever reasonably spend, but that’s kind of off topic.)
Coming from a completely uneducated standpoint regarding AI, I think that AI only really are capable of as much evil as humans would be in their place. The idea of AI existing doesn’t frighten me. As for virtual worlds, I spend a lot of time online and I find it really interesting how online culture exists as a fairly universal thing (at least within English parts of the internet, since it’s the most widely spoken language) and is distinctly separate from how we interact in person. This is partially due to images but I think it’s also interesting to look at how stylized typing is used to portray emotion online when tone of voice or expression cannot be shown. Circulation of images online is also a weird bizarre language of it’s own, and I find it very funny to think that in the future, memes and such will likely be considered an absurdist cultural movement.
My image is a photo of my dog as a puppy at one month old, with two of his littermates in the background. It was taken the first time I met him when we went to meet the new puppies before picking which we would eventually take home, and it was the first time the puppies had been outdoors. Havanese pups are quite small and clumsy, and you can actually see how soft their puppy fur is. Looking at this image reminds me of the time I’ve spent with my dog, who I love a lot, and watching him grow into an adult (though he’s still fairly small and clumsy). I’m very thankful that my parents allowed me to get a dog and I’m thankful that he’s been safe so far, but seeing him as a puppy is somewhat bittersweet since it’s also a reminder that he’s already four years old and only has a life expectancy of 12-14 years. It feels like I’ve had him for such a short time, and it’s sad to be reminded that as he grows up he’s getting closer to old age and death.
Hi, I’m Michael and I’m a first year student planning to take computer science as a major through faculty of arts. I am also taking Japanese language courses, and in my free time I play guitar, draw, and consume a fair amount of video games, anime, and manga, though these are of course all limited by school.
Due to multiple concussions from hockey limiting my ability to socialize in person, I mostly talk to friends online and I hope that can help me in this course for the parts regarding how technology and communication intermingle.I hope to learn more effective ways of communicating through images in this course, for the purpose of use online for fun or for any future job applications it may have.
The lecture video on automating jobs mentions universal basic income as a possible solution for the lack of jobs expected from less jobs requiring human labour, which was honestly my first thought regarding how society would need to shift to function in a largely automated market. I recommend watching the video from that channel on UBI as well, though I personally feel like there would likely be more pros than cons. (I also think that just from a moral standpoint more effort should be put into taking care of people regardless of wealth, since it’s pretty backwards that there are people struggling to survive when others possess more money than they could ever reasonably spend, but that’s kind of off topic.)
Coming from a completely uneducated standpoint regarding AI, I think that AI only really are capable of as much evil as humans would be in their place. The idea of AI existing doesn’t frighten me. As for virtual worlds, I spend a lot of time online and I find it really interesting how online culture exists as a fairly universal thing (at least within English parts of the internet, since it’s the most widely spoken language) and is distinctly separate from how we interact in person. This is partially due to images but I think it’s also interesting to look at how stylized typing is used to portray emotion online when tone of voice or expression cannot be shown. Circulation of images online is also a weird bizarre language of it’s own, and I find it very funny to think that in the future, memes and such will likely be considered an absurdist cultural movement.
My image is a photo of my dog as a puppy at one month old, with two of his littermates in the background. It was taken the first time I met him when we went to meet the new puppies before picking which we would eventually take home, and it was the first time the puppies had been outdoors. Havanese pups are quite small and clumsy, and you can actually see how soft their puppy fur is. Looking at this image reminds me of the time I’ve spent with my dog, who I love a lot, and watching him grow into an adult (though he’s still fairly small and clumsy). I’m very thankful that my parents allowed me to get a dog and I’m thankful that he’s been safe so far, but seeing him as a puppy is somewhat bittersweet since it’s also a reminder that he’s already four years old and only has a life expectancy of 12-14 years. It feels like I’ve had him for such a short time, and it’s sad to be reminded that as he grows up he’s getting closer to old age and death.