Final Draft planning

Im still missing some sources and I need to work on my citations even though I dont know how to cite with an authors list which is 5+ people long. Another thing I need to work on is introducing and using the film effectively because right now it seems like the weakest part in my essay. For one of my sources I would use a chapter from my textbook used in psychology to describe the evolutionary psychology aspect of attraction.

Blog assignment #6

“The first half of the twenty-first century will be characterized by three overlapping revolutions—in Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics” ( Kurzweil 115). This quote explains how the future of the century is going to be revolved around, first we will try to understand genetics to the best of our ability and then include nanotechnology to help us do further improvements and then finally robots that will mimic humans as realistically as possible. This shows how AI will soon be equal or quite possibly more potent that humans and might even out think them. “While each revolution will solve the problems from earlier transformations, it will also introduce new perils” (Kurzweil 116). This shows how even will improvements, there will be new problems and one of the new problems with strong AI is that they will be smarter than us at one point but he then continues to state ways that we can control it and not lead it to our destruction.

A movie clip that shows this is Wall-E, a robot that is sent back to Earth after it was deemed unlivable because of its pollution levels. Wall-E tries to find life so that humans can return, while he had no one controlling him, he stuck to his task and even managed to find plant growing again. This shows how robots can benefit humans immensely in tasks that most humans cant accomplish and not risk any real loss. This is only part of what Kurzweil talked about and robots will only get better than Wall-E.

Blog assignment #5

Im optimistic about the future of robots and computers because even now at this stage of their development they have made our lives so much easier and it will continue to be like this. All robots and computer don’t act independently, instead they only preform tasks that they are told or made to do so any thoughts of them getting out of hand is pretty outrageous. Even then there will be ways to control them or to even prevent this such as with firewalls, anti-virus and such forth. As for computers being able to think like a human, it  won’t be possible because humans have random and very creative thoughts that would be very hard to be duplicated and improved by a computer, any other tasks can be exceled by a computer but that’s only if they are shown how to and I doubt they will learn it on their own because its not like they will have a mind of their own rather just be a super brain waiting to be used by a mind of a human. I doubt thought that in 30 years a super computer capable of all the thinking power of the entire world population will happen, it would take a large amount of testing and finding everything because everyday there are more improvements of things so there will have to be constant feeding of information and that will take up large amounts of memory and space, so 50 years seems more reasonable to say that it will be available to everyone in their homes.

my eng 103 research plan #1

I need to find a book source, this weekend I plan on going to the library to find one that is rich in information about my topic. The topic of the book itself however might be hard to find specifically because it would be generalized against specialized like the one I want to find.

Sample Research paper thoughts

After reading the sample research paper, I now have a clearer idea of how to lead with my topic. Also the formatting of the essay seems to more coherent with a paragraphs for quotes because originally I was going to try to add two sources into one paragraph but that might make it seem confusing and not work as well if they were independent. Another thing was how to lead from source to source.