Mtg 26/26: Thu-11-Apr-2024

Outline for Today

Review for Final

Administration

• Happy Thursday
• Attendance
• Class calendar for today
• Upcoming events

Response to Responses

• too picky about choosing words to be more inclusive?
• why bother with humane interfaces? Can’t we automate that?

Results from Last Meeting

• final exam input
  • 99/123 agree that final should be all MCQs – so it will be all MCQ!
  • Information wants to be free

Today

• Infographic submissions
  • share yours by adding an image to a post on the Infographic Viewer blog
  • if you have your infographic as a pdf, please try to export it as a jpg or png file @ 300 dots/pixels per inch, save it, upload it, and so forth
  • See posts already there for examples
• What Can You Do with a Computer Science Degree? 10 In-Demand Fields
• Final exam preparation: bring a pencil and eraser and leave your electronics (phones, watches, ear buds, etc.) at home
• Review (Meeting 13 contains review suggestions for material before the midterm, the following covers from the midterm until the end of the semester. Supplement these summaries with a review of the class meeting pages and materials linked there, such as photos):
  • Videos:
    • Team Human
    • Obligation of social media platforms?
    • Digital Social Innovation to Empower Democracy
    • The pioneering women who helped create modern computing
    • The Mother of All Demos
    • Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy
  • Podcasts:
    • Future-proofing Democracy in the Age of AI with Audrey Tang
    • Chips are the future of AI. They’re also incredibly vulnerable. With Chris Miller
  • Web resources:
    • Study finds ChatGPT’s latest bot behaves like humans, only better
    • Words Matter, from the ACM
    • The Dilemma
    • Information wants to be free (wikipedia)
    • ELIZA (wikipedia)
  • Presentations:
    • CIPS from March 21
  • In the News:
    • Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media
    • Neuralink
    • Apple Antitrust Case and the Green Bubble: WIRED & NPR
    • How quickly do large language models learn unexpected skills?: WIRED & Quanta
    • Photo manipulation not new
    • Dynamic pricing (for groceries)?
    • Happiness
    • Kategate and information nihilism
    • 3D printed guns in Canada
    • Vending machines
    • Interac e-Transfer messaging abuse

For Next Meeting

• Submit your response to this meeting before noon tomorrow
• prepare for final on Tuesday

ACTION: Take quiz before next meeting

Wiki

Link to the UR Courses wiki page for this meeting

Media

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