Thoughts on Computing and the Future

The Transcendent Robot! 1) Do you think we will find intelligent life in the universe? Why or why not? I'm a pretty glass-half guy when it comes to this topic, I fall in the camp of “if it's just us that’s a pretty big waste of space. I think as our technology advances and we answer more questions about the universe we live in we will eventually find another life that we qualify as intelligent. I think we need to expand on our definition of intelligence. 2) Suppose you had a coupon for a free robot. The catch is it can only do one thing. But you can get a robot that will do whatever one thing you like, just not anything else. What would you want your robot to do, and why? My robot of choice would be the Laundry-Bot 3000. If I could get a robot to do my laundry I would be a happy man. I can do all the other household chores no problem but that one I could definitely use a robot for. 3) Imagine a robotic future. Would it be possible in such a future for labor to b

Tech and the future...and a little about the past. Your name: Daniel J. Condit 1. For the technological topic of your choice, say what it is, give a present-day impact on individuals, and your opinion about whether it is good, bad, or whatever you think. My presentation topic is machine learning and artificial intelligence. The impact of these technologies can be seen in everything we do from search algorithms, digital assistance, marketing to drones and smart cars. The technology in itself is neither good or bad but has the potential to be used for evil or can help humankind greatly. I’m a glass half full kinda guy so I think, after some growing pains and legislation it will be a great thing. 2. For the technological topic of 1 above, give five more present-day impacts on individuals. One of the five should relate to your career path. For each, give a good reason why the impact exists. Data Analytics. The ability to better identify people and relations. (I work in big data

What a Spoil Sport! 1) Find videos on youtube or elsewhere about each of the various spoil sports. On your blog, give (a) the web addresses of the videos, (b) your commentary on them, and (c) how good they are. Seven videos (or more). . 2) Discuss how each of the "spoil sports of prediction" applies or does not apply to your project topic. . 3) Take a favorite topic (your project topic is a good one). Discuss where it may be in 5 years, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 1,000, 10,000, and millions of years. . 4) Read Vernor Vinge's "Technological Singularity." Critique and comment. What do you think of the singularity concept? What do you think of Ray Kurzweil's views on the singularity? What do you think of Ray Kurzweil the person? (We'll discuss Kurzweil in due course.) . 5) a. Write up 250 words or more of your final report (if a paper), or do the equivalent amount of work and explain specifically what you did it is not a paper. .

TRIZ-TASTIC 1) How can TRIZ help me improve my AI? I'm going to run my "Deep Thought" 42 AI through TRIZ to find out. A - The Improvements: Adaptability or Versatility Conflict - Device Complexity Solution - Dynamics. Make the process more adaptive/flexible. This should be inherited to AI but programming something to not be rigid can be difficult.  Ease of Operation Conflict - Loss of Information Solution - Preliminary Action. Make sure that my truth files and everything is in order and working. Adjust the information as needed.  Device Complexity Conflict - Extent of Automation Solution - Dynamics. Adjust the code so it functions as expected while allowing it to still sort by way of AI and machine learning. B - Branching There are many ways an AI can branch, we are starting to see in our everyday lives already. We have AI for vehicle automation, assistants, directions, and marketing, this is just the tip of the iceberg. AI has the pote

Future? What Future!? 1: Cones of Uncertainty I'm going to look at the cones of uncertainty through the lens of my project. What is the future of artificial intelligence(AI)/machine learning(ML) in a year? Present: AI used for marketing, digital assistants, market prediction, game NPC, and autonomous vehicles. Constraints: Pandemics Social Distancing Processing Power Data Sets/Truth Files Need Laws 1 Year Predictions: Autonomous Military Drones More Autonomous Vehicles Better/Intrusive AI for Digital Assistants Larger Data Set for Market Predictions Disease Predictions and Diagnosis Drone Delivery 2: Where's my project at: Summary: I've built a base project structure and made my initial commit to Githuib . I've also built out a Trello board to track my progress and structure my project sprints. Both of those links are listed below as well. You can find my Github repo here. Follow along with my project here.

1) What is Smrt (Spelled Correctly) The big "thing" in tech right now is machine learning(ml), i.e. artificial intelligence(ai), but what is it really and how will my simple project tap into that and show the potential of this tech? First and foremost my simple ml program will not go on to enslave the human population or even help it through it's simple day to day problems. What my project will do is demonstrate the base fundamental programing that is involved in some of these programs. What am I building? How Long will it take? What if I don't get it completed? These are the question inquiring minds want to know. Overall my program will be a simple sorting ai. At this point, I'm not sure what it will be sorting yet, most likely images. Another option I've been thinking through is statistical analysis and prediction but I'm not sure if I have the time to write and debug something like that for this class. Either way in the in you should be able to fe