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 The AI Art Controversy: Is AI Stealing People's Artwork Unjustly? Controversy erupts over prize awarded to AI-generated art - Al Jazeera English | Canada News Media By Andre Torres Nieves June 27, 2024      Generative AI is a new technology, and even the government is having a hard time deciding where to draw the line. In this controversial time, lawsuits against multiple companies including Stability AI, Google, and other large businesses have taken place. It seems no one can decide what the limits on AI should be or if there should be any at all.      The main question I'll be looking at is whether or not AI companies should be able to take artists' work from the internet without giving credit or compensation to make training data. There are many who are split on this question as there are many factors to consider, but I have reason to believe that AI companies are stealing artists' work unjustly.      When you use a generative AI, you may think the art produced is a

 

 Today in class we made chatbots using Chatfuel and Facebook. A chatbot is a program that is designed to communicate with people in place of a real person. They can be used by companies, websites, or etc. to communicate with customers and answer their questions.  Python Chatbot: The code we were given was pre-made. We were able to use this code to get a very basic chatbot. After this we got to edit the code to make the chatbot able to answer more questions. I added on simple questions like "How old are you", "What is the best color", and a couple other basic questions. I understand a bit better now why people would use machine learning for a chatbot as filling in manually every question and answer takes a long time.  Chatfuel/Facebook Chatbot:  My chatbot was inspired by my father. He is always asking my sister and I for good anime to watch so I decided to make a chatbot that gives anime suggestions. The suggestions are based a little bit on my personal choices, but

 In today's class we had a guest speaker. The guest speaker was Dr. Schuman. She discussed machine learning and talked about some of her projects at UT.  Machine Learning: What Is Machine Learning? - TechUpdatesDaily Summary: Dr. Schuman discussed many things in her presentation. One of the main things was how a machine learns. She discussed different methods of this learning. The one that stuck with me the most was the K- nearest neighbor method. In simple terms the method uses whatever "neighbor" is nearest to the point you selected and used that to assume what the object should be. The machine declares the object whatever neighbor is most prominent near it. The number of "neighbors" used to determine the new object can be changed depending on how accurate things are spaced or in general need to be. People typically use odd number for K-nearest neighbor to avoid ties. Besides the machine learning, she also showed us one of her projects at UT. It was a small ca

 In today's class we went on a field trip to Ijam's nature center. The goal was to observe nature in different perspectives.   We completed a packet to reflect on the different methods. You can see my responses below:                                                                                                      These are images from Ijam's and the animals I observed:  

Today's blog will be about two different things. First Is about data visualization and the second is about AI which we used to guess who would survive on the titanic.  Data visualization: I was not able to get excel to work on my computer, so I moved on to the python visualizations. I started with the plant visualizations. The first thing I figured out on it was how to move the planets and change the color. Later on, I learned how to change the shape of the planets and move the names around.  I learned from this how you can manipulate shapes and colors to portray what you want to more clearly. Color and Shape are just two of the ways to do data visualization.  Now let's take a look at AI: AI, also known as Artificial intelligence, is a program that learns from the data it is given to do a certain task. In class we discussed who would survive in the titanic. My group determined our answers from what class the people were and their age.  We assumed that people who were lower clas

 Today in Stem in Society we discussed CAFO's and whether or not the US should rely on them. My group was assigned the NO group and below was our discussion. What Is a CAFO? The Costs of Industrial Farming - Seven Sons Farms What our group discussed: My group read through the articles we were given and came up with the following reasons not to use CAFO's: CAFO's are defined by whether they are a major pollutant Many CAFO's cause major water pollution with all the waste that is created. We discovered that CAFO's targeted minority communities Lower income communities as well as communities of color were the most targeted Health problems caused by the pollution were most notable in these communities that live close to CAFO's Red meat is known to increase mortality rates and cause health problems Even with this knowledge the amount of meat consumption has doubled CAFO's in the red meat industry will only fuel the people to eat more red meat causing more healt

 Today in class we learned about objectivity and what that means in terms of science. Objectivity from what I gathered basically refers to the idea that science should be objective and shouldn't be influenced by outside opinions, ideals, and etc.   Why Objectivity Matters, and How to Foster It - Gerber Leadership Advisors An example (video):  Studio (instructuremedia.com) : The video showed a dog licking a baby bunny in the bathroom of this person's house.  My first reaction to the video was that it was cute and that the dog was very gentle. I saw the behavior as caring from the dog and calm from the bunny. The dog was just casually licking the bunny and did not put much force behind it making me think this. I also noticed that the bunny did not seem to give off any body language that was scared. I thought that maybe the dog was cleaning the bunny, being friendly, or maybe was being coerced to lick the bunny by the human.  With my reaction it was clear I had a bias. Personally,

In today's class, we discussed what makes a person. The main question was how we would determine whether an alien should be treated as a person or as livestock.  footbalgoo.blogspot.com Group decision: My group decided that the best we to determine if the alien was a person was whether or not it could convey complex thought and emotion. Besides that, we also went a little off prompt and discussed how it would be hard to identify things about an alien as we would have little idea what to look for as they would most likely be different from us. We also brought up the point that humans tend to react badly to things that are different and that chances are a person would not necessarily care or take the time to figure out whether the alien would count as a person. Lastly, we talked about whether or not it would matter if the alien was considered a person. If we decided the alien was a person, would we give it rights and would we treat it morally either way.  A new question:  If you do n

 Today in class we learned about 3d printing and made our own Cad designs to print off.    Onshape | Product Development Platform I myself have not done any 3d Printing however my robotics teams design team uses it a lot. I know that for a 3d print you must first create your model. Creating a model on a CAD program I have done before. I have used Tinkercad a little bit and more recently I learned Onshape for my engineering class. I choose Onshape as I have the most experience with it and I personally like it better than Tinkercad.   My design: I designed a tablet for my DND dice for when I am playing. I designed it to keep my dice in place as I tend to lose my dice very easily. I made it in the shape of a sword to reflect on the fantasy of DND and also just because I thought it looked cool.  What I learned: I learned more about the printing side of 3D models. While I am used to making CAD models and seeing the outcome of 3D printing I have never actually seen how it is done and the rul

 Today's blog will be on two topics. In class we worked on looking at the bias of ChatGPT and other AI. We then began to work on coding. I started at the beginner level.  Coding: I started the coding assignment with minimal knowledge in coding. The only coding I have done is block code. I choose to start in the Beginner level project because of this. The main thing I learned was what different ways you can input words and numbers to code. For example, you could put in a numeric value and then have to change it to a string if you want to use it in that format. I got 23% of the way through the beginner level. I stopped a little of the way through the PygLatin project. I'm excited to continue learning to code so that I can help my robotics team in coding the robot next season. Articles on AI bias: https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/18/21121286/algorithms-bias-discrimination-facial-recognition-transparency https://time.com/5520558/artificial-intelligence-racial-gender-bias/ ChatGPT:

In today's class we talked about whether Seti's research for alien life a science or a Pseudoscience. A Primer on SETI at the SETI Institute Seti is a non-profit organization that works to find technological life in space. Their goal to find evidence of intelligent alien life by sending out and taking in radio signals . They hope is to capture radio signals from alien civilization.   Science or Pseudoscience: In my group with Aarna Srivastava, Mia Lankford, Jinny Kim , and Aimee Segoviano , we decided that Seti's work was Pseudoscience . We had two main reasons: T heir research isn't falsifiable I t does not have a real beneficial goal Can it become science: I thought about the idea that if Seti's research is Pseudoscience could it become science in the future once humans are more advanced ? I thought that it might be able to. If in the future , we are able to define how far we can scan then the research technically could be falsifiable . In the future on

 Today's Delema was about the self-driving car. In class we discussed the programming of a self-driving car in an emergency. The problem: The dilemma of the self-driving car was what option the car should choose in the situation that it has to sacrifice the passengers or other drivers. The car had three options. Either drive towards danger, swerve into a SUV, or swerve into a motorcycle. tiresandparts.net Decision: In my group and personal opinion, we choose to swerve into the SUV. We had a two main reasons for this: T he chance of survival for both passengers would most likely be much higher assuming we are talking about just a driver. T he damage to the vehicles would be less bad than if the car went another direction. When we first considered the problem, the outcome was really all we were thinking about. As we listened to others reasoning however, we changed our answer . We choose to drive into the danger . The main reason for this was because we wanted

Today we looked at the engineering design process and then applied it in a quick project. T he  project  was simply to  move  an  object  from one place to another. My group started our project like this:   Step 1(Define): We choose to move an eraser from one side of the table to the other.  Step 2(Ask): My group identified what forces we could work with to achieve our goal . We also identified the constraints of time and material .  Step 3(Imagine): We listed out multiple ideas ranging from a Slingshot to a car .  Step 4(Plan): Our group choose to make a rubber band powered car . We then drew out our design to see how we could build it.  Step 5(Create) : At this stage we began to build our prototype from the wheels up splitting the work between the three of us. Step 6(Test): Finally, once we finished our prototype, we tested our idea .   Engineering Design Process - TeachEngineering                                                        Final outcome:                  Our

      My name is Andre Torres Nieves, and this blog will show what I have learned in Govenor school. For now, here is a little bit about me.  In Govenor school I will take 3 classes. Stem skills, Stem in society , and Mathematics . Math is my favorite subject in school, so I am very excited for the mathematics course. Outside of Govenor school I am a part of a robotics team, team 3824 the HVA RoHAWKtics . I am this year's safety captain. I also have many other hobbies such as sculpting and playing the guitar and trumpet . I have played in the Hardin valley band for 5 years.