Intelligence is not Artificial - Stanford, June 2016piero scaruffi
A critical analysis of the state of A.I. and predictions about its realistic future. Based on the book of the same title, see http://www.scaruffi.com/singular/ where i keep updating these slides
A brief history of the notion of the Singularity, why some think it is coming soon, why some disagree, and why some are afraid of it. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Demystifying Machine Intelligence: Why the Singularity is not Coming any Time Soon And Other Meditations on the Post-Human Condition and the Future of Intelligence. A more updated version can be found at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Art/Science Interaction - Case study: Silicon Valleypiero scaruffi
Presentation for the Alpbach Technology Forum of August 2014 on Art/Science and Silicon Valley. I keep updating my presentations on Silicon Valley at www.scaruffi.com/svhistory
Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Checkpiero scaruffi
A lecture given at the second LAST festival (www.lastfestival.org) by Piero Scaruffi on Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Check. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Alan Turing and the Programmable Universe (lite version)piero scaruffi
Alan Turing, the cultural context of his world, and what would Turing say of today's high-tech world. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
Intelligence is not Artificial - Stanford, June 2016piero scaruffi
A critical analysis of the state of A.I. and predictions about its realistic future. Based on the book of the same title, see http://www.scaruffi.com/singular/ where i keep updating these slides
A brief history of the notion of the Singularity, why some think it is coming soon, why some disagree, and why some are afraid of it. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Demystifying Machine Intelligence: Why the Singularity is not Coming any Time Soon And Other Meditations on the Post-Human Condition and the Future of Intelligence. A more updated version can be found at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Art/Science Interaction - Case study: Silicon Valleypiero scaruffi
Presentation for the Alpbach Technology Forum of August 2014 on Art/Science and Silicon Valley. I keep updating my presentations on Silicon Valley at www.scaruffi.com/svhistory
Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Checkpiero scaruffi
A lecture given at the second LAST festival (www.lastfestival.org) by Piero Scaruffi on Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Check. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Alan Turing and the Programmable Universe (lite version)piero scaruffi
Alan Turing, the cultural context of his world, and what would Turing say of today's high-tech world. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
The Technological Singularity - Prepare for the Disruption of Human IntelligenceManuel Koelman
As technological development progresses at an exponential rate a central question comes up: Will machines at some point be more intelligent than humans? If so, when will that "Singularity" happen?
I held this talk at execfintech.com in Frankfurt on March 8th 2016.
A Brief History of Creativity from Cheops Pyramid to Silicon Valley: 5000 Yea...piero scaruffi
The two "cultures" (art and science) and the two "gaps". A case study: why did it happen in Silicon Valley of all places? Neuroscience of creativity. Demystifying machine intelligence: there is very little progress, machines are not getting much smarter, many humans are getting dumber.
Artificial Intelligence: Should You Be Worried?Harry Blanchard
An introduction to the what artificial intelligence is and a cultural history of the fear of creation of intelligence. A realistic assessment is made of the so-called singularity and what we really should be worried about: artificial "semi-intelligence." Talk given to the Northern Monmouth County Branch of the AAUW.
You online: Identity, Privacy, and the SelfAbhay Agarwal
In the current landscape of media and communication, our world is undergoing immense and rapid transformations in the breadth, and format of how we interconnect. At the same time, it is difficult for even the most technically adept to fully comprehend the scope of these projects. This talk is a musing on the ideas behind online identity and mass communication in the 21st century. It intends to partially unravel the mystery behind networked social identity, as well as provide the tools for even the technically-disinclined to understand the possibilities for control, surveillance, freedom, and liberated identity within this new topology.
Some included topics:
* Online surveillance, and how deleting your Facebook isn’t enough
* Big Data analytics: why your data is worth money, and the (im)possibility of privacy
* Theories and Paradoxes in a hyper-connected future
* Alternative internets, (or darkness) and what they represent.
This is a live presentation (turned into a deck) on how human's process information versus machines. The deck also looks to the future of AI and machine learning. Spoiler: it ends with a scene out of WestWorld Season 1 (love the show). A number of the slides are a summary of a few incredible TED talks. Credit to the authors of these talks and links to their presentations are included. Hope you find these slides fun and informative.
The Turing Test - A sociotechnological analysis and prediction - Machine Inte...piero scaruffi
The 'singularity" may be near not because we are making smarter machines but because we are making dumber humans. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
Keynote Address, 4 July 2013, South African Association for Science and Technology Education (SAASTE). Rethinking learning: Learning technologies in a networked society.
2011 April 16 ERDI - futuristics and personalized learningBrian Kuhn
presentation for a panel of K12 school superintendents from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia and for SRB / StarDyne an ERP and student system / achievement vendor
Facebook of the Dead - The Future of DeathChris Dancy
Watch the keynote here: http://www.servicesphere.com/blog/2014/2/13/facebook-of-the-dead-the-keynote-video.html?SSScrollPosition=0
We are immortal! Each day we see our friends and family organically cease to function, whereas their digital footprint remains very active. As the first fully digitized species starts to retire or expire from corporate culture, how will we deal with their legacy data.
The Egyptian "Book of the Dead" circa 1550 BCE, chronicled the magic spells and rituals assisting the passage of the dead to another plane. Preservation, afterlife, and judgement are translated into an information rich culture of storage/security, access and algorithms.
In this age of information and ephemeral data, how do we protect, celebrate, and respect this transition?
Piero Scaruffi's introduction to the Stanford Multidisciplinary Multimedia Meeting of Arts, Science and Humanities... SMMMASH! - Part 5: Body (Jan 17, 2013)
Resistance is Futile: Google Glass and the Cyborg Workforce of the FutureDonna Lichaw
Google Glass raises a number of questions: Should we design for it? *What* do we design for it? Who will use it? We'll explore how technology like Glass has already been prototyped, anti-prototyped, proven, and disproven for years in film, television, and literature. Learn how to harness these images to answer timely strategy questions and design products and apps able to transform the future.
Resistance is Futile: Google Glass and the Cyborg Workforce of the FutureFuture Insights
Donna Lichaw's talk from Future Insights Live 2014 in Las Vegas: "We'll explore how technology like Glass has already been prototyped, anti-prototyped, proven, and disproven for years in film, television, and literature. Learn how to harness these images to answer timely strategy questions and design products and apps able to transform the future."
Miss her talk? Join us at a future show: www.futureofmobile.com. Sign up for our newsletter at futureinsights.com and get 15% off your next conference.
APIdays Paris 2018 - Bots on the 'Net: The Good, the Bad, and the Future, Mik...apidays
Bots on the 'Net: The Good, the Bad, and the Future
Mike Amundsen, Director of API Architecture, API Academy
Apply to be a speaker here - https://apidays.typeform.com/to/J1snsg
Quantifying Well-Being: Big Mother, Big BrotherChris Dancy
SXSW 2015 session.
Well-being isn’t only about health or even the absence of sickness. Today, it’s about purpose, social support, community, financial security and physical health. But is it possible to quantify your own personal well-being? And if so, what does the data mean and what should you do with it? This session brings one of the world’s most well-known leaders in personal data to explore the convergence of forces that combine high tech personal health tracking devices with fundamental lifestyle changes to empower people to achieve their optimal well-being. Chris Dancy, named the “The Most Connected Man on Earth” by Mashable, Fox News and the BBC. This interactive session will feature a session demonstration of "Smart phone" palmistry" where we will look at how we are embedding our lives into our devices
Humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years. What if …robots replaced the world’s workforce?
This is the presentation delivered by Glen Leonhard at London Business School's 2015 Global Leadership Summit.
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 5. Machine Intelligence; Physics I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
The Technological Singularity - Prepare for the Disruption of Human IntelligenceManuel Koelman
As technological development progresses at an exponential rate a central question comes up: Will machines at some point be more intelligent than humans? If so, when will that "Singularity" happen?
I held this talk at execfintech.com in Frankfurt on March 8th 2016.
A Brief History of Creativity from Cheops Pyramid to Silicon Valley: 5000 Yea...piero scaruffi
The two "cultures" (art and science) and the two "gaps". A case study: why did it happen in Silicon Valley of all places? Neuroscience of creativity. Demystifying machine intelligence: there is very little progress, machines are not getting much smarter, many humans are getting dumber.
Artificial Intelligence: Should You Be Worried?Harry Blanchard
An introduction to the what artificial intelligence is and a cultural history of the fear of creation of intelligence. A realistic assessment is made of the so-called singularity and what we really should be worried about: artificial "semi-intelligence." Talk given to the Northern Monmouth County Branch of the AAUW.
You online: Identity, Privacy, and the SelfAbhay Agarwal
In the current landscape of media and communication, our world is undergoing immense and rapid transformations in the breadth, and format of how we interconnect. At the same time, it is difficult for even the most technically adept to fully comprehend the scope of these projects. This talk is a musing on the ideas behind online identity and mass communication in the 21st century. It intends to partially unravel the mystery behind networked social identity, as well as provide the tools for even the technically-disinclined to understand the possibilities for control, surveillance, freedom, and liberated identity within this new topology.
Some included topics:
* Online surveillance, and how deleting your Facebook isn’t enough
* Big Data analytics: why your data is worth money, and the (im)possibility of privacy
* Theories and Paradoxes in a hyper-connected future
* Alternative internets, (or darkness) and what they represent.
This is a live presentation (turned into a deck) on how human's process information versus machines. The deck also looks to the future of AI and machine learning. Spoiler: it ends with a scene out of WestWorld Season 1 (love the show). A number of the slides are a summary of a few incredible TED talks. Credit to the authors of these talks and links to their presentations are included. Hope you find these slides fun and informative.
The Turing Test - A sociotechnological analysis and prediction - Machine Inte...piero scaruffi
The 'singularity" may be near not because we are making smarter machines but because we are making dumber humans. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
Keynote Address, 4 July 2013, South African Association for Science and Technology Education (SAASTE). Rethinking learning: Learning technologies in a networked society.
2011 April 16 ERDI - futuristics and personalized learningBrian Kuhn
presentation for a panel of K12 school superintendents from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia and for SRB / StarDyne an ERP and student system / achievement vendor
Facebook of the Dead - The Future of DeathChris Dancy
Watch the keynote here: http://www.servicesphere.com/blog/2014/2/13/facebook-of-the-dead-the-keynote-video.html?SSScrollPosition=0
We are immortal! Each day we see our friends and family organically cease to function, whereas their digital footprint remains very active. As the first fully digitized species starts to retire or expire from corporate culture, how will we deal with their legacy data.
The Egyptian "Book of the Dead" circa 1550 BCE, chronicled the magic spells and rituals assisting the passage of the dead to another plane. Preservation, afterlife, and judgement are translated into an information rich culture of storage/security, access and algorithms.
In this age of information and ephemeral data, how do we protect, celebrate, and respect this transition?
Piero Scaruffi's introduction to the Stanford Multidisciplinary Multimedia Meeting of Arts, Science and Humanities... SMMMASH! - Part 5: Body (Jan 17, 2013)
Resistance is Futile: Google Glass and the Cyborg Workforce of the FutureDonna Lichaw
Google Glass raises a number of questions: Should we design for it? *What* do we design for it? Who will use it? We'll explore how technology like Glass has already been prototyped, anti-prototyped, proven, and disproven for years in film, television, and literature. Learn how to harness these images to answer timely strategy questions and design products and apps able to transform the future.
Resistance is Futile: Google Glass and the Cyborg Workforce of the FutureFuture Insights
Donna Lichaw's talk from Future Insights Live 2014 in Las Vegas: "We'll explore how technology like Glass has already been prototyped, anti-prototyped, proven, and disproven for years in film, television, and literature. Learn how to harness these images to answer timely strategy questions and design products and apps able to transform the future."
Miss her talk? Join us at a future show: www.futureofmobile.com. Sign up for our newsletter at futureinsights.com and get 15% off your next conference.
APIdays Paris 2018 - Bots on the 'Net: The Good, the Bad, and the Future, Mik...apidays
Bots on the 'Net: The Good, the Bad, and the Future
Mike Amundsen, Director of API Architecture, API Academy
Apply to be a speaker here - https://apidays.typeform.com/to/J1snsg
Quantifying Well-Being: Big Mother, Big BrotherChris Dancy
SXSW 2015 session.
Well-being isn’t only about health or even the absence of sickness. Today, it’s about purpose, social support, community, financial security and physical health. But is it possible to quantify your own personal well-being? And if so, what does the data mean and what should you do with it? This session brings one of the world’s most well-known leaders in personal data to explore the convergence of forces that combine high tech personal health tracking devices with fundamental lifestyle changes to empower people to achieve their optimal well-being. Chris Dancy, named the “The Most Connected Man on Earth” by Mashable, Fox News and the BBC. This interactive session will feature a session demonstration of "Smart phone" palmistry" where we will look at how we are embedding our lives into our devices
Humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years. What if …robots replaced the world’s workforce?
This is the presentation delivered by Glen Leonhard at London Business School's 2015 Global Leadership Summit.
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 5. Machine Intelligence; Physics I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 3: Language, Dreams, Emotions. I keep updating these slides http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Introduction to Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought"piero scaruffi
This is for the students who are taking the class. A general introduction to the themes of the class. Almost a summary of http://www.scaruffi.com/nature
Argues that the qualitative character distinctive of conscious perceiving also occurs without being conscious, so that being conscious is not essential to such qualitative character.
From Cosmology to Neuroscience to Rock Music and backpiero scaruffi
The universe led to a brain that led to music that led to rock music that will lead to a different brain that will lead to a different planet that will lead to a different universe.
Luke Robert Mason delivering a talk on using virtual persons as tools for understanding the social layer of the web 2.0.
LSEsu AMP
The Annual AMP Conference: Surviving in a Digital World
Tuesday March 6th 2012
Weavrs are virtual bodies of information, which re-purpose and remix social media streams in order to generate their own personae from the digital detritus of our online lives. Using Web APIs and a custom filter design (a mix of narrative techniques and statistical probability) these autonomous, semi-intelligent software agents have become useful collaborators for market researchers, writers and advertising agencies. By giving brand managers and researchers the ability to create quick, virtual embodiments of their target demographics, Weavrs offer a unique method via which to navigate and author the narratives that emerge on the social web. When all marketing has ever asked of user experience is to make people into users. Phactory ask if, “Surely it’s easier just to make some users?”
Sociology of the Internet and New Media.pptxSandykaFundaa
• Social Construction of Technology,
• Digital inequalities – Digital Divide and Access,
• Economy of New Media - Intellectual value;
• digital media ethics,
• new media and popular culture.
In this session, we talk about the mobile and social web, and how it shapes economy, individual behavior and well-being, political events, and society as a whole.
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Project, will describe the new media ecology and how “networked individuals” get, share and create information. This new environment has disrupted the old models of public relations and requires a new understanding of how information is passed through social media and networks and how influence is reconfigured when everyone is a publisher and a broadcaster.
Transformed media landscape - and how we can make best use of itcentrumcyfrowe
Presentation on key social trends related to digital technologies, presented at the infoactivism workshop organized by Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska for the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
Social Media for the Scared February 2014Bex Lewis
Day long course designed for the Church of England, encouraging people to think about why, what, when, etc. to use social media, provided by Dr Bex Lewis, Director of Digital Fingerprint Social Media Consultancy.
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 6. Consciousness, Self, Free Will I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 1: Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Psychology. I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
History of Thought - Part 6: The Modern Agepiero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 6: The Modern Age. for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html . I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 5: The Victorian Agepiero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 5: The Victorian Age. for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 4 from the Renaissance to the Industrial REvolutionpiero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 4 from the Renaissance to the Industrial REvolution for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 3 - From Rome to the Middle Agespiero scaruffi
"History of Thought - Part 3 - From Rome to the Middle Ages" for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World piero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 1 - The Ancient Western World piero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 1 - The Ancient Western World for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
Lectures on Silicon Valley at Beijing and other cities in China - September 2014 - excerpted from my book http://www.amazon.com/History-Silicon-Valley-Almost-3rd/dp/1500262226/ref=sr_1_3_bnp_1_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1405191978&sr=8-3&keywords=scaruffi+silicon+valley
The Brain - Part 6 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" at UC B...piero scaruffi
The Brain - Part 6 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" at UC Berkeley (2014). I keep updating this presentation at www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
4. Public identity: the art of
standardizing poses
• Government-issued identity: a “surveillance” photo, that
must be easy to identify, i.e. facial expressions must
conform in order to facilitate the job of face-recognition
machines
• The goal: universal and standardized measurement and
decoding by software algorithms
5. Social photo: the art of posing
• Smiling for the camera is a learned convention
6. Agit-prop selfies
• “Photography is power” (Susan Sontag, “On
Photography”,1973)
• Making a statement by altering one’s public image
Lynda Benglis, 1974
7. The Selfie: Constructing the Self
• Most platforms (social networking
sites, chat sites, dating sites, etc)
ask you to create a “profile” which
includes a photo of you
• Social etiquette in cyberspace
requires a visual presentation of
identity
• The selfie helps construct your
persona even before they hear what
you have to say or meet you in
person
• The individual plays an active role
in the way that images represent
her life
8. The Quantified Self
• The Quantified Self movement: using
self-tracking to improve one’s life
Vanity Fair (2013)
Sunday Times (2013)
MIT Tech
Review (2011)
10. Rettberg
• “The audience for our self-representations is no longer, as
a few decades ago, ourselves and each other. Our audience
today includes machines.
• The machines … send the results on to marketers,
employers, insurers or governments.
• We don’t think too much about our machine audiences.
We are too busy learning more about ourselves and each
other by taking selfies…”
11. Lee Humphreys
• “People willingly participate in the monitoring of their
own behavior” because of perceived benefits
• The “voluntary panopticon”
• After all, you have to tell your doctor everything about
your health if you want an accurate diagnosis of your
symptoms, and you have to tell your tax accountant
everything about your finances if you want a favorable tax
return
12. Giroux
• “The right to privacy has succumbed to the seductions of a
narcissistic culture and casino capitalism's unending
necessity to turn every relationship into an act of
commerce”
• “The surveillance and security state is one that not only
listens, watches and gathers massive amounts of
information … but also acculturates the public into
accepting the intrusion of surveillance technologies”.
• “…a social order in which surveillance becomes self-
generated… through a machinery of consumption… Such
bits then move from the sphere of entertainment to the
deadly serious and integrated spheres of capital
accumulation and policing”.
13. Schell
• “Today, alongside each one of us, there exists a second,
electronic self, created in part by us, in part by others.
This other self has become de facto public property,
owned chiefly by immense data-crunching
corporations, which use it for commercial purposes.
Now government is reaching its hand into those
corporations for its own purposes, creating a brand-
new domain of the state-corporate complex.”
• Popular meme “You don't browse the Internet. The
Internet browses you.”
14. Wellman
• It is not surveillance but “coveillance”
(participatory surveillance)
15. Coveillance is an old idea
• Michel Foucault: “Visibility is a trap”
( “Discipline and Punish”, 1977)
• Gilles Deleuze: an individual is constructed
as a “dividual”, an endlessly divisible
representation of a person as data, which
becomes a tool to control the individual
(“Postscript on the Societies of Control”
1992)
• Popular meme “You don't browse the
Internet. The Internet browses you.”
16. Rymarczuk
• “Users of social media platforms constantly
have each other under coveillance
• This process of networked coveillance is intrinsic
to the way social media function”
• “Facebook's general function is that of offering
a general heterotopic medium
• Whereas Facebook is attractive to many
primarily as a social networking tool, it is
repulsive to some as a site, a heterotopia.”
17. Heterotopia
• A heterotopia: a space that disrupts the continuity and
normality of common everyday places.
• Unlike utopias, which are unattainable and inherently
unreal, heterotopias are real spaces
• Heterotopias are “counter–sites, a kind of effectively
enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other
real sites that can be found within the culture, are
simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted”
• Movie theaters, cemeteries, ships, brothels,
Disneyland
• Every culture in the world creates heterotopias
18. Sherman Young
• “Cyberspace should not be thought of as a single
space. Whilst the network is a kind of malleable,
expandable, linked unity, the actual social
spaces that result from its amorphous being are
many in number and vary in both quantity and
quality… from sex-based chat-rooms to
commodified digital libraries and embrace
almost every spatial possibility in between. Thus,
not only can cyberspace as a whole be
considered a heterotopia, but within cyberspace
itself there must exist heterotopias”.
19. The real nature of social
networking
• Facebook is not a social networking tool
but an archive of the user’s life.
• It belongs to the category of museums, not
to the category of salons.
• Facebook’s key feature is the “timeline”
(2012) that rewinds your entire life in a
multimedia format that no existing museum
can match, and potentially with an infinite
amount of personal details because of the
links to other people’s timelines.
• Facebook’s timeline automatically
generates a record of your life, an
extended multimedia multidimensional
browseable editable self.
20. The real nature of social
networking
• It is doubly a self: because you created it, bit by bit,
and because you can reedit it at any time, thus
changing your own historical self.
• If you broke up with that boyfriend, you can
remove all the pictures of him, or even any trace of
all the trips that you took with him and of all the
parties that you two attended together.
• Facebook allows you to retroactively construct
your own persona
• Facebook’s Timeline can be used as a time
machine that allows you to change your own past
and, by creating a new persona, to alter your future.
21. Mitchell
• “As an archive of a user’s activities that is, in its
ideal form, automatically updated, Timeline (and
associated Facebook services) is symptomatic of a
technological understanding of the world common
to many companies in Silicon Valley.
• Facebook’s archival subjectivity indicates a
societal change in the pre–understanding of things
in general.
• Facebook … helps its users present cleaner, better
curated versions of themselves, ”
22. Beating the system?
• The “selfie” is a very malleable object
• One can take a selfie in a million different ways
(unlike government id photos that must comply with
strict rules)
• A selfie usually violates the principles of
government-issued ids: weird facial expressions,
weird camera angles, weird positions, weird hand
gestures, make you “unmeasurable“
• Filters can alter a selfie at will, even changing the
time and location
23. An instrument of rebellion?
• Selfies mark the democratization of face image producing,
distribution and cataloging
• The selfie as the weapon of choice for a movement against
surveillance and standardized metrics?
24. The Future of Selfies
• The future: facial recognition algorithms will
create your persona, a more objective persona
than you create by censoring which bits of
your life’s history are public
25. The Surveillance State
• 2013: Edward Snowden leaks to the media
the clandestine mass electronic surveillance
PRISM program operated by the NSA
26. Andrejevic & Gates
• “One of the less publicized facts about the deployment of
surveillance and military drones is that in addition to
weapons, cameras, and other sensors, they are equipped
with a device called an “Air Handler” that can capture all
available wireless data traffic in the area.
• The drone then comes to represent a double-image of
surveillance: both the familiar “legacy” version of
targeted, purposeful spying and the emerging model of
ubiquitous, opportunistic data capture.”
27. Boghosian
• The omniscient state "in George Orwell's 1984 …
is represented by a two-way television set installed
in each home. In our own modern adaptation, it is
symbolized by the location-tracking cell phones we
willingly carry in our pockets and the microchip-
embedded clothes we wear on our bodies."
29. Boyd danah
• Increasing importance of educating young people in media
literacy
• “In a networked world, in which fewer intermediaries
control the flow of information and more information is
flowing, the ability to critically question information or
media narratives is increasingly important”
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