EXTRA LAWS: We need AI Laws

 AI is everywhere and the government is trying to figure out how to control it. We are living in a sci-fi movie and all I'm trying to do is process it all. AI is very powerful (duh), it can do amazing things but also can cause an insane amount of harm especially if we are not careful. Look at all the deepfakes and videos that re being created, used like warfare and that's exactly why the government is stepping in, trying to set boundaries before it gets even more out of hand. I woke up and watch a video of the president speaking influent Arabic making a joke only the natives culturally understood. My mother laughing not knowing the video was a fake, I had to explain to my immigrant mother that the president did not just make a joke only people from back home could understand, especially in fluent Arabic. A person who uses computers and is understanding AI and its capabilities wouldn't get tricked in this level but we can still be fooled easily. The goal should be to make AI safer and ethical, they't talking about things like making sure big companies are more transparent about how AI works like Facebook and it's mysterious algorithms, we need to hold people accountable especially if AI is being used to do harmful things. From what Ive read I'm now seeing government banning in certain areas like surveillance tech (used to invade peoples privacy) and ethical panels like committees (in certain countries) figuring out what's okay and what's not okay. There are steps being taken but the advancement makes it feel like a losing race. You have two sides racing, AI becoming more and more stronger and AI management. The question is how do you manage something that is growing stronger and stronger everyday. As someone who is familiar with AI, I can't really imagine life without it anymore but I also see how dangerous it can be if left alone and unchecked. Just like fire, it's useful but can burn you. Learning more and more about how AI rules are created and what's established makes me realize how unprepared we are. I hope that people are starting to take a more serious look into AI's policies so that at the end of the day we live in a world were AI helps us, not controls us.

EXTRA EXTRA: Why Jobs Are Safe From AI! (Extra credit)

What we can see is AI has been rapidly transforming the world and many of the industries I was looking forward applying to before many jobs were taken over leaving millions of people without income. This evolution leaves me with a critical question: Which professions remain secure in the face of AI world domination. When you look at jobs that hinge on emotional intelligence and creativity it seems like it's less susceptible to automation. Roles like therapy, social work, teachers require a high level of emotional intelligence and empathy, these qualities leave AI useless due to not being able to replicate their jobs. Instead AI can be used as a tool for these workers to further better their output, almost like what AI should be used for! Similarly, jobs like artists, writers, and musicians need human creativity to advance their art and it cannot be replaced by AI. While AI continues to do routine tasks, jobs that center human creativity and emotional intelligence remain vital embracing lifelong learning to thrive along AI advancements. Just as the Internet doomed jobs, it also created them. I feel that as we should feel afraid, we should also feel excited (someone said this before) about the advancements of AI since new jobs we could never think about will be created. I hope for a dystopia of where AI will eradicate jobs to leave us doing what we want instead of doing what makes us a living. Now what a world that would be. What are your thoughts on the future interplay between AI and the job market? Do you believe that AI is for better or for worse?

HTML introduction to life

We had an assignment to create a simple HTML doc. After reading the helpers guide that was prepared I came across a road block. I Started following the instruction opening up NotePad and entering in the basics of <html> and <title> then giving my page a name (Fobdi's Page) and not forgetting to add a <body> tag for the main content. After adding some text and playing around I decided to change the background color light as well. After that I tried to insert an image using <img src="URL "> hitting the roadblock I mentioned earlier. As. a student who's taken Java and Python, running across trouble seems to happen all the time. After using local file paths instead I quickly corrected the mistake. At one point while trying to open the website over and over again I found it that I forgot to use the .html extension to open the file. I feel like not coding for a while made me forget everything, at first I assumed that this would be really easy (and it relatively was) but I was finding small mistakes I usually wouldn't make. What I learned from this assignment definitely was to continue practicing coding like a muscle since for me I tend to forget things relatively quick. Today it was about the basic HTML page but tomorrow it could be the development of games, you never know. I want to put my all into coding but the future of AI is terrifying to look at with the job circuit. I look forward to coding more in the future and this journey of HTML was one of the starts. 

Cyber Crime is Real!

 As a student who moved into. a first world country I can see how technology is engulfed in our everyday lives. We live in an environment that puts tech first, I bring that up because we as a society do not understand how serious cybercrime can truly affect us. Cybercrime is something that we see in films but genuinely it's a lot closer to us than we understand. We we factor in ransomware, phishing, and Dos attacks, we can see that it effects not just me but everyone especially YOU who's reading this. Ransomeware can be beyond terrifying. When I think about it I genuinely feel like it's straight from a horror film. I remember a few years ago that my brother's computer was hit. When he looked into an email he opened the attachment and all of his files became locked. I remember reading the message demanding for money and if they didn't pay then photos, important files, school work would all be lost. Seeing that became a wake up call for me to never open up links without looking the person in the eye that sent it to me. When it comes to phishing, I myself have almost fallen victim many times to be honest. I remember looking at my bank one time and seeing that there was an issue with one of my accounts. Before I clicked it I also remembered to double check the sender and realized it was one of the best fakes I've ever seen. If I had given them my information I truly believe my account would have been done. When looking at a DoS attack I myself haven't gone through that luckily but multiple times before hopping onto my PlayStation before Christmas was there servers hit for hours because of it. It seemed to happen around the same time every year and I just told myself to not play during that time every year and all would be well. Cybercrime is very real and everywhere, we dodge it everyday and the more comfortable we become the easier it is to fall for a trap. This class especially made me realize how easy it is to fall for these things. Stay safe out there!

ML and AI against Society

When looking at the World Wide Web we seen this disruptive behavior that changed everything in the 90's. The internet made it so that the middle men weren't needed anymore and looking at Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence has a similar wave coming in right now. AI is starting to shrink the impact seen in many roles that rely on that repetitive tasks. For me as a junior level engineer, there's many lay offs in the entry level positions due to AI being able to replicate the nature of my job making it so that companies can save millions on hiring. When looking at customer service roles you can see them being replaced as well by AI chatbots (a huge pet peeve of mine), you can't escape the "Dial 5 for *insert answer*" without thinking about wanted to hang up. These algorithms are taking over tasks like stock trading, scoring of credits, investment advising, etc. These are full marketable jobs that are now no longer available due to robots doing the same job faster, cheaper, and. arguably better. Now when you take a step back from the general public's opinion, you start to gage AI's convergence with other tech like cloud computing (creating entirely new business opportunities). An example could be for smart cities and its concept. Traffic could be optimized, energy use could be more efficient, public services could be utilized differently, I mean entirely new industries can be created for better use and urban efficiency. We already see the AR and VR industry coming with life changing creative inventions. When look at AI I can see it also bring in new jobs like AI ethics, all we need to do is implement these changes to make sure society adapts to the changes greatly with the cheat code of seeing what happened before with the internet boom. Follow a similar blueprint and the future could be endless. 

The match of Dot.com vs Dot.Bomb

 In the early 1990's, everything was changing as far as the internet we starting seeing the interaction of the world wide web. In public the dot com boom vs the dot com bomb and what happened was a lot of internet companies started having this craze, where there was the rise of a lot of companies creating websites and a lot of them didn't make it, investors started giving them a lot of money and a lot of the companies didn't really have the research to back up what they were giving (money wise) due to the creation being so new. there was a big stock market crash causing a lot of companies to fail, and important thing to take away from this is companies like info blocks were worth more than Boeing. Kaleil carried this over confident energy that fueled his passionate behavior. A leader one could say, that could inspire other investors but when things started to go south he couldn't understand when to stand down when things were going off track. With Tom there was. a more grounded approach but to me seemed a bit overshadowed at times. There was a tension built because of this that made it seem more high pressured in their endeavor. With the dot com bubble there was this lesson that proved excitement outpaced practically. With Investors throwing money at dot coms without understanding the functionality behind it, looking at it right now it truly reminds me of what people are doing when it comes Crypto and AI. I feel like people should be focusing on what the substance is instead of rushing for the gold pot. Lookingb at Tom and Kaleils story shows us a cautionary tale that inspires us to learn from.