Terra's Terrace : May 2015

AI Communication

5/31/2015 Terra 3 Comments Category :

Texting abbreviations

AI (Artificial Intelligence) - 1 : a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers. 2 : the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

Through the meaning of an Artificial Intelligence or for short AI from google definition, AI ranges from your phone's calculator to self-driving cars to something something in the future that might change the world dramatically. AI basically is a term for all forms of technology.

Even though it seems kinda confusing, I try to remember AI by just by putting everything that has some sort of programming that goes along with it. So like a robot, something that has some sort of program that goes along with it is an AI. The closet thing that I think many people would know that is a robot is Siri, found in apple devices.

Things that Siri can do
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri)

Siri is one of the common AI that we come to know. Though Siri voice is a real person voice with some additional things added to it, Siri isn't a real person. She is an artificial intelligence for the convince of voice recognition and searching up something without typing it. You can kinda call her the robot that works in your Iphone.

To some having Siri is a good thing, because it helps them with their disability. With Siri they can just speak into their apple device to search something up. This also helps those who don't know or is unsure about the spelling of a certain word because they can just say the word into siri and siri will say it back before she types it in.

Siri isn't the only Artifical Intelligence that is helping people. Prosthetic limbs is another form of AI. Prosthetic limbs now a days are so advance that the users can move the prosthetic limbs with their brain. Which to me is a huge step into helping those who need those limbs. It's making prosthetic limbs look more human. If you want to read about more detail on how Prosthetic Limbs work. A link that explains this is here.

Picture seen in the link explaining how biomechatronics or prosthetic limbs works
(http://science.howstuffworks.com/biomechatronics.htm)

Though technology is helping some people, everything is a double sided blade. Through all the technological advancements communication has advanced drastically. First it was through actually using your mouth to making words with sounds of the letter used in that word and combine then all together to create sentences. Which leads to a conversation with another person that is going the same as you.

Yet, now less and less people are doing this an moving on to a new form of communication. Texting, a new form of communication where 2 or more cellular telephones input letters that forms words that combined becomes sentences and sends that combinations of words through radio waves that is then picked up by the other cellular telephone or telephones and continue the same process until they stop the conversation that they are having.

This is the flaw of the advancements in technology, while technology advances communication does too. With technology advances we are losing the most basic form of communication known to man. Actually talking to each other, face to face. I'm pretty sure those who were born in the digital age probably has seen more screen than actually people.

Modern Society
(http://datedaily.mate1.com/the-sauce/tried-and-true-tips-for-texting-as-a-tool/attachment/texting-at-the-table22)

With communication being like this, many people can be who every they want and no one would. One person could easily hack into another person's account on any platform they chose and pretend to be that person and no one would know. This is also another flaw in the advancements of technology.

Which in conclusion, the advancements in the world of AI would helps some but not help all people in this digital world. It changes the way we think of communication cause everyone texts each other how a days. No one actually takes the effort into talking to each other face to face. It make me think that communication is now nothing more than talking to a screen with a stranger.

Way to Live?

5/21/2015 Terra 1 Comments Category :

Here's a picute of the group assignment that my English class was given, Creating an Advertisement

Through most people's spare time, they would usually plop onto the couch and turn on their TV. With TV being such a big thing that many people use, companies of any sizes take advantage of that in making the many ads or commercials that annoy, offensive, and just some times rude. Though, it sometimes just looks little a small very comedic ad that's very creative and humours on the surface. Yet, these commercials are just rude and sometimes disgusting.

All commercials are used to promote the service or product that they are selling. Yet, the way some companies do this just tick me off once I started to look deeper into the ad. You can watch the video here.

Here's a screen shot of Axe commercial
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3qYT60DSKQ)

The ad shown above is an example of this. A very creative and what I consider amusing ad by Axe to promote their line of chocolate body spray. Yet, the way that they show that people should buy this product distributes me. The commercial shows a young boy that's spraying body spray on himself making him become a man of chocolate. While he walks around town, all the young women that are around him can't keep themselves away from him. So all the girls there just start licking and eating all the chocolate that is also him too. This is because the ad wants to tell the view that if you use our product you will be irresistible to all the Caucasian young ladies that are around you.

This ad to me is just very awkward. By watching the expression of the boy, he is enjoying the fact that every girl he sees wants him. By saying this, he is very racist. He himself is a Caucasian young boy who only likes young Caucasian woman. All of the Caucasian women are all over him are all of the same race. There was no sign of any other race like Asians or African Americans.

Another ad that has some way that includes stereotypes is in the ad created to promote stride. A gum company that is trying to promote their new layer gum. You can watch the commercial here.

Here's a screen shot of Trident Layers commercial
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tviPLpD8VG8)

With the ad shown above about stride new layered gum commercial, we are introduced to the Jones' family. Their family consist of 4 people, a mother, a father, a son and a daughter. One of each gender, is shown in this family. Some would say that this kind of family is the perfect family. Being able to leave their children with a teenage in the middle of the day when other people have to work. Coming back with their children happy and not killing each other.

Yet, when the parents come back, Mr. Jones ask the baby sister if he can pay her in gum instead of money. Even though she earns it by taking care of his children, while he was out with his wife. Instead of telling him off she gladly takes the offer. The man whom I believe to be Asian that was cleaning the chimney and the African American mail man comes and says that they would be gladly paid in the new Stride Layers gum.

From what I stated just by watching this commercial is that Caucasian people are more financially stable then the Asian or African men that was working very heavy and physical jobs. With this is mind, this ad also shows that men are the only ones that are working. From the Asain man that is cleaning the Jones' chimney to the African American man that is delivering the man, none of the people who are working there are women. All of them are men.

Through all that I have to show and rant about, many ads from body spray to something simple like a gum commercial can have a deeper message to them that affects the way people look at themselves. Yet, sometimes I can't blame them, when I was in an English seminar, our teacher gave us the assignment of creating our own ad. The ad that we created is the photo at the very top. When we finally completed it we found out that we accidentally had some form of stereotype there. So in some of the commercial maybe it could have been by accident? Or they purposely added it in there?

Old Man Punishment?

5/18/2015 Terra 0 Comments Category :

As a child, I got into fights, accidents, and into troubles many times. For this, my parents would start yelling at me and tell me what I did was wrong. Sometimes they would even ground me from watching TV or using my tablet. Thankfully, I am not get grounded today.

Recently while skimming through my YouTube subscription list, I saw that Buzzfeed a website with crazy and funny articles. I spent some time on the web page, though what surprised me the most was this articles about a child who got his head shaved like an old man. If you would like to read the article, it is right here.

For the parent who did this, he said that this was a form of punishment to his child and he even gave the haircut a name, the "Benjamin Button Special." This is where they shave the kid's head to look like an old man. Though this is pretty smart and a very creative way of punishment. I don't really see how this is a punishment at all? All the parent did was just giving him a haircut?

Yes, he does look like an old man but he probably doesn't act like one? How is this supposed to teach that child whatever he did was wrong? It can be very embarrassing for the child to go around looking like that until his hair grows back. Also, posting it on the internet for millions to see must have made it worst.

Yet, a video made by the same company, Buzzfeed, shows four of their own workers dyeing their hair grey. They did this to show off the new "granny hair" trend that has been going around. Many celebrities have done this, Pink for example dye her hair grey in 2010. If you would like to watch the video it is right here.

Photo of one of the volunteers results
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgrwCOxjx-Q)

By watching this video and the way the volunteers reacted to their new looks, I just don't understand how this could be a form of punishment at all? Many of the volunteers liked their new hair colour in the video.

The article that talks about this says "He was inspired to offer the special after he saw immediate results when he tried it out on his 12-year-old son, Rushawn, for getting bad grades". (Buzzfeed) So this was only done to get his son to study more? To get better grades? To me this doesn't seem like the best idea to get your kid to study more? If I were that child's mother and I saw that my child got a bad grade on his test.

I would try to help him study what he didn't understand, because usually when you got a bad mark on a test or assignment, you did something wrong that you didn't realized that you did. Yet, I can't say this because I don't have any children of my own. Plus many parents have their own crazy ways to discipline their children. Yet, in my opinion to get your child to do better in school, cutting their hair to look like an old man isn't the best way to punish them. Maybe helping them with that certain subject would be best if you want them to truly understand and get a good grade.

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