#AIMachineLearning&BigDataWeek

Looking Down the Barrel of Technological Challenges

Connor Burri, Patrick O’Mullan, Matthew Spofford, Alex Young   While we develop new and innovative technologies, society is continuing to evolve faster than ever before.  Technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data, are going to affect our future in extreme ways. By looking to historical examples of time periods when technology was rapidly… Read more Looking Down the Barrel of Technological Challenges

Staying One Step Ahead: How Future Technologies Should Cooperate With Society

In modern times, computing technologies have been developing rapidly. Big Data, machine engineering, and AI are playing a larger part in our daily lives than ever before, creating an epistemic transition. As these systems advance, the developers of these technologies will be tasked with finding progressive ways of meshing technology with society, ever cognizant of… Read more Staying One Step Ahead: How Future Technologies Should Cooperate With Society

What History Can Tell Us About the Future of AI and Technology

By examining the history of technology we can recognize problems we need to address in order to make the future that we envision for this technology a reality. Looking at the success and concerns of the past, we can shape the future of AI and big data positively, and be better informed on decisions that… Read more What History Can Tell Us About the Future of AI and Technology

Is Technology an Endangerment to Society? SAFTB

It is easy to be a proponent of new computing research and technologies because anything that is new and shiny is exciting to most people. However, many people, to the delight of tech corporations, choose to ignore the dangers of this rapid technology growth. New computing technologies have the potential to jeopardize as much as… Read more Is Technology an Endangerment to Society? SAFTB

AEEC Article Nomination

The article that we are nominating is Bill Gates on dangers of artificial intelligence: ‘I don’t understand why some people are not concerned’, by Peter Holley.  This article talks about Bill Gates’ position on artificial intelligence as he ponders the idea of why humanity is not concerned with this advancement. Many topics of negative implications of AI… Read more AEEC Article Nomination

SAFTB Article Nomination

Machine Learning Advances Human-Computer Interaction by Lindsey Valich is about the differences in computer learning and human learning. Including the fact that, computers require more data points to recognize patterns. It also mentions computerized speech assistants which can detect facial expressions and speech patterns to help improve public speaking. This program can not understand the… Read more SAFTB Article Nomination

ACHSRE Article Nomination: Self-Driving Cars Will Need People, Too

This article discusses some of the issues with fully autonomous vehicles and stresses the importance of the interaction between the driver and the car. It resembles the idea of referring to technology and humans as “we” as discussed in class. Link to the article: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/self-driving-cars-will-need-people-too/

BIFSTOU Article Nomination

This article from Forbes by John Koetsier titled “Top Russian Cybernetics Experts On AI, Robot Morals, Human Extinction … And Self-Driving Cars” expands upon some of the topics that we have discussed in class. As the title suggests, this article details how a cybernetics experts feels about many of the recent developments in technology, and how… Read more BIFSTOU Article Nomination

PORMAGEI Article Choice: “10 Powerful Examples of Artificial Intelligence in Use Today”

In this Forbes article the question of what is actually AI and what AI is actually in use today. It looks at whether or not what many call AI is actually AI or not. It looks at popular companies like Apple, Amazon, and Tesla to see if AI is actually an accurate description of said… Read more PORMAGEI Article Choice: “10 Powerful Examples of Artificial Intelligence in Use Today”

EGMOSAM Article Nomination

This article from the MIT Technology Review, written by Will Knight, is about the issues that arise when discussing artificial intelligence. For example, when people create the algorithms behind automated decision making, we still can’t truly explain how these decisions are made because these computers are programming themselves. This raises the question of how well… Read more EGMOSAM Article Nomination