Informed Practice – scary video
Interim assignment 1
Script research
Internet of things
‘With all those sensors collecting data on everything you do, the IoT is a potentially vast privacy and security headache. Take the smart home: it can tell when you wake up (when the smart coffee machine is activated) and how well you brush your teeth (thanks to your smart toothbrush), what radio station you listen to (thanks to your smart speaker), what type of food you eat (thanks to your smart oven or fridge), what your children think (thanks to their smart toys), and who visits you and passes by your house (thanks to your smart doorbell). While companies will make money from selling you the smart object in the first place, their IoT business model probably involves selling at least some of that data, too.
And it’s worth remembering that IoT data can be combined with other bits of data to create a surprisingly detailed picture of you. It’s surprisingly easy to find out a lot about a person from a few different sensor readings. In one project, a researcher found that by analysing data charting just the home’s energy consumption, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide levels, temperature, and humidity throughout the day they could work out what someone was having for dinner.‘
‘The rise of a global Internet of Things network is ultimately creating a giant, internet-connected global robot which is so disparate and insecure that cyberattacks against it are going to cause major societal problems if it isn’t regulated.
“The internet now thinks and senses and acts and to me that’s the definition of a robot,” said Schneier. “To me, the correct way to think about the Internet of Things in general is that we are building a world-sized robot without even realising it”.‘
‘“It’s going to be so cheap that vendors will put the chip in any device, even if the benefits are only very small. But those benefits won’t be benefits to you, the consumer, they’ll be benefits for the manufacturers because they want to collect analytics,” says Hyppönen, speaking at Cloud Expo Europe.
“And you won’t be able to avoid this, you won’t be able to buy devices which aren’t IoT devices, you won’t be able to restrict access to the internet because they won’t be going online through your Wi-Fi. We can’t avoid it, it’s going to happen.”‘
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Marvin the Paranoid Android
https://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Hitchhikers.Guide/19/text.html
“Oh, the Paranoid Android,” he said. “Yeah, we’ll take him.” “But what are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?” “You think you’ve got problems,” said Marvin, as if he was addressing a newly occupied coffin, “what are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don’t bother to answer that, I’m fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don’t know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.”
In the corner, the robot’s head swung up sharply, but then wobbled about imperceptibly. It pulled itself up to its feet as if it was about five pounds heavier than it actually was, and made what an outside observer would have thought was a heroic effort to cross the room. It stopped in front of Trillian and seemed to stare through her left shoulder. “I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed,” it said. Its voice was low and hopeless.
“Ghastly,” continued Marvin, “it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don’t even talk about it. Look at this door,” he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. “ ‘All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.’ ”As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sighlike quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said. Marvin regarded it with cold loathing while his logic circuits chattered with disgust and tinkered with the concept of directing physical violence against it. Further circuits cut in saying, Why bother? What’s the point? Nothing is worth getting involved in. Further circuits amused themselves by analyzing the molecular components of the door, and of the humanoids’ brain cells. For a quick encore they measured the level of hydrogen emissions in the surrounding cubic parsec of space and then shut down again in boredom. A spasm of despair shook the robot’s body as he turned. “Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.”
House of Whacks – Treehouse of Horror XII Simpsons episode
Mark Leckey – GreenScreenRefrigatorAction
‘GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction (2010) shows a shiny black Samsung smart fridge pondering its existence and mingling with like objects. In a scientifically-charged description that concerns its inner workings, the fridge’s anguished, robotic first person voiceover renders audible its inner life and its potential dreams. As we create increasingly smarter objects, Mark Leckey predicts a world in which things become sentient, start communicating, and alter our environment into new digital ecosystems.’
https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201102/mark-leckey-38854
How would an AI / sentient computer observe time?
https://www.quora.com/How-would-artificial-Intelligence-perceive-Time
‘Speaking of fundamentals, neurons in a human are in principle capable of processing signals at the rate of 200 operations per second, while transistors in a computer logical circuit are capable of processing signals at 10+ million operations per second (possibly 100s of millions of operations per second). Humans generally perceive time at the rate of 20 increments per second – we can’t process events happening faster than that due to a number of human hardware limitations. These limitations relate to human I/O latency: optical (eyes) input reaction speed, neuron data transfer speeds and neuron switching speeds et c . If we apply a similar hardware latency logic to electronic computer systems performance, then such an AI might perceive time at scales of millions of increments per second.This may lead to an AI perceiving the rate at which time flows many orders of magnitude slower than a human. 1 second objective time or human subjective time (which is the same thing, really) might be equivalent to about 14 hours subjective time for the AI. I.e. for every second that passes for a human 14 hours would pass for the machine. Say, interactions with humans or even the real world for an AI might be the equivalent of watching paint dry or concrete set – not very stimulating. What would be the implications of this is anyone’s guess. We don’t have anything to go by to judge what would a (sensory deprived) thousand or a million year old sentient being think about life. Or how does one make a life spanning millennia meaningful enough to go on.’
https://www.danfoss.com/en-gb/about-danfoss/our-businesses/cooling/the-fridge-how-it-works/
Script
Script is way too long at the moment!! 30 seconds is very short when you’re writing a script, its difficult to fit everything I want into it. I think I’m going to have to make the video more of a short exert of a longer story rather than a short 30 second story as its too big of as topic to fit. Also I’m struggling to find a good text-to-speech website as all the voices are not quite what I want, I might have to record my own voice then edit it more robotic but I don’t have a very sophisticated accent/way of speaking e.g. I don’t think a robot would have a lisp.
Its definitely still too long but I don’t really care at this point, I might just make the video then cut it down and have a shorter and a longer version. I’m going too use the Voki for Education iPhone app for the voice because its the smoothest and has more options for accent etc. For the actual video I’m going to use found internet footage and pictures
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