Category: Week 14 (April 16 + 18)
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good news but for uk
The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK Obviously, the UK just made a big move to prevent the deepfake sexual abuse content. The article indicates that all UK IP addresses will be blocked from accessing the biggest deepfake porn website. Previously, it was illegal for people in the UK to share sexualized…
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Philosophy in The Matrix
The first time I watched The Matrix was on a Delta flight last year. Although the screen was small and the image quality was low, I was still shocked by this legendary movie, especially by the psychological concepts it introduced. One of the most striking sequences for me involved seeing the human pods and watching…
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The Matrix | Reloading Post-Humanism
When evaluating the Wachowkis’ science fiction 1999 blockbuster, The Matrix, narrative and subsequent tone of the film chooses to take the concept of Artificial Intelligence into its most ubiquitously ambiguous narrative, at least when it comes to the perception of the real-world. Fundamentally, the film predicates itself upon the notion that the real-world, materialistic earth…
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Neuralink and The Matrix – Searcher
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Wants to Make ‘The Matrix’ a Reality. It Has a Lot to Prove First. – WSJ An Integrated Brain-Machine Interface Platform With Thousands of Channels – PMC (nih.gov) The discussion about The Matrix was primarily centered on virtual reality and the concept of human perception prior to Elon Musk’s ventures into this…
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The Matrix as a Trans Allegory
Through the number of times The Matrix has appeared in pop-culture, in various Emory courses, and even in politics, I always found it fascinating that the original story was allegorical to the “egg-cracking”, and subsequent transition, of transgender people. Though both sisters were at the time not out, much of the fuel of the film…
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A Promising Future with Virtual Reality
From watching The Matrix (1999) this week, I became interested in exploring virtual reality (VR) spaces and AI in our modern time today. There has been a lot of media coverage and research on VR and gaming for recreational use, but I wanted to find other sources where VR could actually be useful in a…
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Who is the Villain?
Throughout the semester, we’ve seen plenty of outright villains– Proteus of Demon Seed, the Terminator of The Terminator, HAL of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more. Almost every film, however, asks us a question– who is really the villain? Even the examples above almost beg that question, but films like Ex Machina have us debating…
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Stanford’s Take on AI
A couple of days ago, this year’s AI index, a project under the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), was released. The index is run by the AI Index Steering Committee, a team of experts from various fields, ranging from academia to industry. This year’s report highlights key trends such as the growth of…
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Battle of the “Brains”
Conflict is still raging in the Middle East with many of us being spectators. In this class, we already discussed how A.I. is already being weaponized, but for those who don’t have influence over what happens with the military, there have been A.I.-generated images and videos subjected to the Iran attacks on Israel. The issue…
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Can you truly opt-out of AI data collection?
Last week I came across a guide published by Wired on how to opt-out of having my personal data being used to train generative AI programs. In the guide, the authors included a list of industry-dominating tech companies, all which have elaborate opt-out processes, such as: Adobe, Amazon, Google Gemini, Grammarly, Hubspot, OpenAI (ChatGPT), Perplexity,…