I was very intrigued watching the technology YouTube video we watched in class. I was scared at the same time as fascinated seeing where technology is moving towards. Watching Will.I.Am recreate himself in a digital copy was really interesting because thats something we could have never imagined a few years ago yet soon that might become the new normal. Something I thought was very cool was when they mentioned that the robots/computers are not programmed by the individuals who created them but instead they program themself. What this means is that the creator isn't manually inputting all the information into this robot. The robot instead learns like a baby or human would. The creator has the ability to "teach" it certain things so it then can make connections and observe. It does this by using a neural network which is a more simple version of a human brain. These machines use object recognition to learn which is using a small camera so you can show it an object and explain what it is. This helps it learn what the object is as well as what it does and how it should feel about that object.
While watching the creators team up with Will to create his digital duplicate, he expresses concerns for making it look too realistic to where "his mom can't tell the difference between him and the fake him". This is a very realistic concern that I think a lot of people face. This film didn't really explore that too much but rather touched on the idea. I hope that the upcoming episodes in the series talk about that a little deeper so we can hear from the creators on how they feel about these drastic changes to technology in society.
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