Economics Per 5/6 Fall 2016: Dawson

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Applications Of New Technologies

Friday, November 11, 2016

Classifications of Artificial intelligence ( AI )

When People think of AI ( artificial intelligence ) they think of the Terminator, Star wars, and space odyssey. While some people see AI as “polite and helpful butler servants” others, especially in Hollywood view AI as “ world destroying super robots” AI is a broad topic, It can be as simple as the programming that runs your TV or that shows you recommended people to follow or even a video game.

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Calalber 1: Caliber 1 AI is called Artificial Narrow Intelligence ( NIA ). This type of AI is the most commonly seen. Well most of the time it isn't seen. What i'm talking about is the AI that makes everything in your house run. From your freezer noticing you don't have ice to your thermostat automatically telling your heater to turn up the heat because the house is getting cold. These types of AI are designed to do one task and complete it flawlessly every time. A great example of this is a computer programmed to play chess. Chess is a game that has strict rules and there can be no creativity in this game. Therefore a computer can access the situation and will 99% of the time. “It can’t simulate flight paths or predict a better way to store data as it was programmed only to play chess, which it does extremely well”

Caliber 2 Caliber 2 AI is called Artificial General Intelligence ( NGA) NGA is very rare in today's society but ever prominent. NGA is an AI that is capable of doing everything a human can with the same difficulty. No easier and no harder. They can not think for themselves but they are programmed with a mimicking tool. What is they you ask? Well it takes information that it receives and mimics it. Therefore it has primitive leaning. The only public instance of this is IBM's Watson computer that destroyed every jeopardy contestant it faced.

Caliber 3: Caliber 3 AI knows as Artificial Super Intelligence ( ASI ) is the scariest form of AI imaginable. This AI is 10,000 smarter than the smartest human. It is“an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills.” Currently none of these machines exist due to the sheer cost of quantum computers. The AI needs a brain to operate and a Quantum computer is the best solution to the problem. But the only problem with ASI is it is great at learning. So good at learning it is predicted that within 1 hour of being activated it will gain consciousness and become a litters god. Being able to process Immense amounts of data giving it Infinite knowledge. If such a AI could be controlled then the human race would be propelled forward 100 fold. But just like terminator if the AI deems us as useless then it will have in limiter to completely insulate us as a human race.

Next research question Quantum Computers

Friday, October 14, 2016

How Elon Musk has changed space flight forever

Have you ever looked up into the stars and wondered what would be like if you could take a weekend trip to the moon? Well, Eon musk is making that possible with space X. In the article titled “How Elon Musk Has Changed Space Travel” by business insider. It lists the top 9 ways he is revolutionizing private space travel. This martial is broken up into 3 sub sections from 9 main topics relating to the most important aspects of space flight.

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The main problem with space travel is the cost. Space X is the leader in cheap affordable spacecraft. They way they managed to cut the costs so drastically is self production. Space x is the only rocket company that makes its own rockets. This is great because they have full control of the design of the rockets. And when you are in charge of the entire design process you have a lower explosion rate. The USAF could take a satellite into space for $460 million. Space X is capable of doing the same job for just $90 million. One of the ways that they did this was creating a reusable rocket. So the rocket takes off then the payload is jettisoned into space and the fuel tank flies itself back down to earth refuels and is ready for the next launch.
With the monopoly on space travel growing every day. Musk sued the government to lift a monopoly blocking companies like SpaceX from filing contracts with the US Air Force. This is important because it shows how badly spaceX wants to become the main form of transportation in space. Musk said that “SpaceX could provide the same services as ULA for one fifth the cost, which would not only benefit the Air Force, but also American taxpayers. SpaceX was later certified to compete for these contracts in 2015”
SpaceX has developed a rocket booster that Can survive its launch with a single booster lost. For most people thinking about this it would be a no brainer to have this implemented into every rocket design. Turns out that more than 50% of all rocket launches fail because of a booster failure. SpaceX has created a redundant rocket that is capable of pushing on through space even tho it lost a major thrusting force

Next Blog post: What is AI and how is it transcending into modern day culture

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Tesla cars are programmed to Kill?

Imaging you are being driven in your new Tesla out of the lot. You are driving down the freeway and all of the sudden a group of 3 people run across. What does your car do? Does it brake and swerve possibly killing you. Or does it run the people over. This is the biggest concern about self driving cars. Well, really artificial intelligence.

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Through time we have had many innovations, cars, planes. These are many things we take for granted. But there is a new innovation coming in the very near future. With the introduction of Tesla's autopilot in 2014 people have awed at a future where the car will drive you. No worrying about anything that will happen on the road. But the fact that people don't want to or plainly just don't think of is the programming he hid it. Most of the programming is boring, no one really cares about it. What some lines of code will dictate his life and death. For instance what does your car do if you are about to hit someone J walking?

To answer this question we need to look at the morality behind this. MIT ( the leaders in technological rescearch )argues that the car should save their own lives and run over the J walker. Others say the car would have to unfortunately kill the occupants. This fact may scare people enough to make them second guess the purchase of a self driving car. But if it the fatalities people are concerned about the self driving cars are the best option. “If fewer people buy self-driving cars because they are programmed to sacrifice their owners, then more people are likely to die because ordinary cars are involved in so many more accidents.” But therein lies the paradox. People are in favor of cars that sacrifice the occupant to save other lives—as long they don’t have to drive one themselves. “Should different decisions be made when children are on board, since they both have a longer time ahead of them than adults, and had less agency in being in the car in the first place” I agree that there needs to be a solution to this problem. But there is no easy way to fix the problem. If you where to "fix" the problem you would need to program a killing machine. until someone figures how to fix this problem then the future of electric self driving vehicles is in priority.

Future questions to research: How has Elon Musk Revolutionized space travel