Artificial intelligence is already everywhere. From Amazon product suggestions to Google auto-complete, AI has invaded nearly every aspect of our lives. The trouble is that AI just isn’t very good. Have you ever had a meaningful conversation with Siri or Alexa or Cortana? Of course not. But that doesn’t mean it always will be this way. Though it hasn’t quite lived up to our expectations, AI is definitely improving.

A Good Thing?

In a utopian version of an AI-dominated future, humans are assisted by friendly, all-knowing butlers that cater to our every need. In the dystopian version, robots assert their independence and declare a Terminator-style apocalypse on humanity. But how realistic are these scenarios? Will AI ever actually achieve true general intelligence? Will AI steal all of our jobs? Can AI ever become conscious? Could AI have free will? Nobody knows, but a good place to start thinking about these issues is here.

The Scenarios

“So you get into this uncomfortable position where you might be forced to recognize that some humans are non-persons and some nonhumans are persons.”“Now again, if you bite the bullet and say I’m willing to be a specialist, being a member of the human species is either necessary or sufficient for being a person, you avoid this problem entirely. But if not you at least have to be open to the possibility that artificial intelligence in particular may at one point become person like and have the rights of persons.”Susan SchneiderProfessor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

Humans & Nonhumans

“I think a lot of people dismiss this kind of talk of super intelligence as science fiction…” “…because we’re stuck in this sort of carbon chauvinism idea that intelligence can only exist in biological organisms made of cells and carbon atoms. As a physicist, from my perspective intelligence is just a kind of information processing preformed by elementary particles moving around according to the laws of physics. And there’s absolutely no law in physics that says you can’t do that in ways that are much more intelligent than humans.”Max TegmarkPhysicist

Super Intelligence

“If we create intelligence, […] unless we program it with the goal of subjugating less intelligent beings, there’s no reason to think that it will naturally evolve in that direction.”“Particularly if, like with every gadget that we invent, we build in safeguards. And we know, by the way, that it’s possible to have high intelligence without megalomaniacal or homicidal or genocidal tendencies because we do know that there is a highly advanced form of intelligence that tends not to have that desire and they’re called women.”Steven PinkerProfessor of Psychology, Harvard University

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Will true AI turn against us?

Humans landed first time on the Moon in 1969, and now it's 2022Nasa is planning to send humans to Moon again, after almost half a century

Apollo But Modern

<ol><li>Scheduled launch by 2024-25</li><li>Will also land First Woman and Black person on Moon</li><li>Will launch on the new SLS Rocket, with Orion capsule</li><li>Will setup a Moon base, for future Mission astronauts to stay</li><li>Moon bases will allow in future to slowly start Human colonization on Moon</li></ol>

Features Of The Artemis Program

Here's what NASA is planning with its Artemis program

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What Is NASA's Artemis Program

Synthetic media (also known as AI-generated media,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_media#cite_note-2"> </a> generative media ,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_media#cite_note-3"> </a> personalized media , and as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfakes">deepfakes </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_media#cite_note-5"> </a> ) is a term for the artificial production, manipulation, and modification of data and media by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation">automated </a>means, especially the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence">artificial intelligence </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">algorithms </a>, such as for the purpose of misleading people or changing an original meaning. Synthetic media as a field has grown rapidly since the creation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_networks">generative adversarial networks </a>, primarily through the rise of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake">deepfakes </a>as well as music synthesis, text generation, human image synthesis, speech synthesis, and more.

AI Generated 

Though experts use the term "synthetic media," individual methods such as deepfakes and text synthesis are sometimes not referred to as such by the media but instead by their respective terminology (and often use "deepfakes" as a euphemism, e.g. "deepfakes for text" for natural-language generation; "deepfakes for voices" for neural voice cloning , etc.)Significant attention arose towards the field of synthetic media starting in 2017 when Motherboard reported on the emergence of pornographic videos altered with the use of AI algorithms to insert the faces of famous actresses.

Deepfakes

Fears of synthetic media include the potential to supercharge fake news, the spread of misinformation, distrust of reality, mass automation of creative and journalistic jobs, and potentially a complete retreat into AI-generated fantasy worlds. Synthetic media is an applied form of artificial imagination.

Misinformation 

<ol><li>The robotic creation of music, whether through machines playing instruments or sorting of virtual instrument notes.</li><li>Directly generating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveform">waveforms </a>that perfectly recreate instrumentation and human voice without the need for instruments, MIDI, or organizing premade notes.</li></ol>In 2016, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind">Google DeepMind </a>unveiled WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms that could learn to understand which waveforms best resembled human speech as well as musical instrumentation. Other networks capable of generating music through waveform manipulation include TacoTron (by Google) and DeepVoice (by Baidu).

Deepmind

In 2019, voice cloning technology was used to successfully impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000. he case raised concerns about the lack of encryption methods over telephones as well as the unconditional trust often given to voice and to media in general.

Fraudulent Vocals

The capacity to generate music through autonomous, non-programmable means has long been sought after since the days of Antiquity, and with developments in artificial intelligence, two particular domains have arisen:

Music Geberation

Natural-language generation bots mixed with image synthesis networks may theoretically be used to clog search results, filling <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engines">search engines </a>with trillions of otherwise useless but legitimate-seeming blogs, websites, and marketing spam.

Nlp Seo Bots

A combination of speech synthesis and deepfakes has been used to automatically redub an actor's speech into multiple languages without the need for reshoots or language classes.An increase in cyberattacks has also been feared due to methods of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing">phishing </a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfishing">catfishing </a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_hacking">social hacking </a>being automated by new technological methods.

Social Hack

Ai currently has no regulation, so it's media has gone unnoticed for a long time. This is a cultural lag I have witnessed through most of these photos. 

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Synthetic media - Wikipedia

Human image synthesis is technology that can be applied to make believable and even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorealism">photorealistic </a>renditions of human-likenesses, moving or still. It has effectively existed since the early 2000s. Many films using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_generated_imagery">computer generated imagery </a>have featured synthetic images of human-like characters <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_compositing">digitally composited </a>onto the real or other simulated film material. Towards the end of the 2010s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning">deep learning </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence">artificial intelligence </a>has been applied to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_synthesis">synthesize images and video </a>that look like humans, without need for human assistance, once the training phase has been completed.

Human Image Synthesis

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">In February 2019 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia">Nvidia </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source">open sources </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StyleGAN">StyleGAN </a>, a novel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network">generative adversarial network </a>. Right after this Phillip Wang made the website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com with StyleGAN to demonstrate that unlimited amounts of often photo-realistic looking facial portraits of no-one can be made automatically using a GAN. Nividia's StyleGAN was presented in a not yet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review">peer reviewed </a>paper in late 2018.</li></ul>

Does Not Exists?

The whole process of making digital look-alikes i.e. characters so lifelike and realistic that they can be passed off as pictures of humans is a very complex task as it requires photorealistically <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_modeling">modeling </a>, animating, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cross-mapping&action=edit&redlink=1">cross-mapping </a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_rendering">rendering </a>the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_body_dynamics">soft body dynamics </a>of the human appearance.

Digital Look Alikes

Synthesis with an actor and suitable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">algorithms </a>is applied using powerful computers. The actor's part in the synthesis is to take care of mimicking human <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_expression">expressions </a>in still picture synthesizing and also human movement in motion picture synthesizing. Algorithms are needed to simulate laws of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics">physics </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology">physiology </a>and to map the models and their appearance, movements and interaction accordingly.

Synthesized Actors

Often both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics">physics </a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology">physiology </a>based (i.e. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animation">skeletal animation </a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image-based_modeling_and_rendering">image-based modeling and rendering </a>are employed in the synthesis part. Hybrid models employing both approaches have shown best results in realism and ease-of-use. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morph_target_animation">Morph target animation </a>reduces the workload by giving higher level control, where different facial expressions are defined as deformations of the model, which facial allows expressions to be tuned intuitively. Morph target animation can then morph the model between different defined facial expressions or body poses without much need for human intervention.

Modeling And Renderibg

In the late 2010s, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning">machine learning </a>, and more precisely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_networks">generative adversarial networks </a>(GAN), were used by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIDIA">NVIDIA </a>to produce random yet photorealistic human-like portraits. The system, named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StyleGAN">StyleGAN </a>, was trained on a database of 70,000 images from the images depository website <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr">Flickr </a>. The source code was made public on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub">GitHub </a>in 2019. Outputs of the generator network from random input were made publicly available on a number of websites.

Machine Learning

Similarly, since 2018, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake">deepfake </a>technology has allowed GANs to swap faces between actors; combined with the ability to fake voices, GANs can thus generate fake videos that seem convincing.

Deepfake

This is what early 2010 to 2018 tech was doing under your nose. Now it's much more complicated.  Stay woke. 

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Everyday, us humans are focused on making a million little choices and over the past twenty years the amount of choices that are related to digital solutions has exponentially increasedOur work, personal, family and social lives have dramatically changed as a result of several waves of technological innovation.

The Future: Human Or AI

Web3 and the Metaverse are ushering in a new era of decentralization of data and community ownership.There are many questions regarding Web2 and where social media has left us and if there are lessons to be learned from Web3.The biggest one is whether Web3 will alter how we design solutions for human experience.A decentralized internet is exciting, but there are still many questions that need to be answered.If we can approach what we've done with <a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/technology">technology</a> at scale and take it to a whole new level with depth, then we can actually get closer to understanding what people feel.

Web 3.0 And The Human Experience

With excitement buzzing about web3, how can the tech community start to explore how this and emerging technology will impact the human experience?

The Future is Caring About the Human Experience

Having to switch your devices off on airplanes is frustrating, especially when you’re on a business trip and need to stay in touch with the office or flying solo with kids on a long-haul journey. The good news is that inflight WiFi is becoming available on more and more airlines in place of traditional inflight entertainment. But how in the world does it work 35,000 feet up in the air? Well, this is just another piece of <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/airplane-trivia/">airplane trivia</a> you never knew.

Phones On Airplanes: No Longer Switched Off

There are <a href="http://www.connected-altitude.com/services-technology/how-inflight-wifi-works/">two operating systems</a> for airplane WiFi: ground-based and satellite. Air-to-ground WiFi works in a similar way to your cell phone. Airplanes have an antenna located underneath their body, which links up with cell towers. As the aircraft travels, it simply connects to the nearest transmitter on a rolling basis. The airplane becomes a hotspot, so passengers can do everything they would normally do when connected to the Internet, including sending emails, making calls, and even streaming movies.

Two Different Operating Systems

However, this system can’t work when the plane is flying over large expanses of water, like on transatlantic routes. That’s where satellite comes in.Satellite WiFi uses a network of orbiting satellites to allow a connection. The satellite is linked to ground stations, and the airplane connects using a satellite antenna on the top of the fuselage. Again, the plane uses whichever satellite is nearest as it travels. Satellite WiFi operates on two different bandwidths: narrowband and broadband. Both allow passengers full Internet access though broadband is better.

Doesn't Work On Water

The number of <a href="http://www.letsflycheaper.com/blog/airlines-2/airlines-that-offer-inflight-wifi/">airlines offering inflight WiFi</a> is increasing rapidly. You may need to book directly with the airline, and some operators require a <a href="https://www.gogoair.com/list-all-products">single-use pass or package</a> from a provider such as Gogo. This is also a useful option if you fly frequently with different airlines. The price is usually higher for greater bandwidth, but for your company, it may be worth the investment. Keep an eye out for these <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/airplane-features/">hidden airplane features</a> you had no idea existed either.

Book WiFi Directly

Inflight WiFi connectivity is poised to improve across the board. Technology such as Gogo’s 2Ku system is steadily improving reliability, which is enabling more airlines to introduce WiFi for both domestic and international flights. <a href="https://www.jetblue.com/flying-with-us/wifi">JetBlue</a> offers standard <a href="https://www.rd.com/article/how-to-get-free-wifi/">free WiFi</a> service on all domestic flights, and Air Alaska offers <a href="https://www.alaskaair.com/content/travel-info/flight-experience/inflight-entertainment/text-messaging">free texting over WiFi</a> on all flights as well as the promise of <a href="https://www.alaskaair.com/content/travel-info/flight-experience/inflight-entertainment/wifi">expanded, faster WiFi</a> with Gogo’s 2Ku system through 2020. As of now, most Air Alaska flights offer basic WiFi services on flights in North America.

Improvements To Come

Ever wonder how cell signals travel to 30,000 feet so your child can watch 'Frozen' for the hundredth time? Here's how inflight WiFi can keep you connected.

How Does Inflight Wifi Work, Anyway?

A firewall is an online security measure to protect your computer from viruses and other malicious attacks.You can use the internet to communicate with around 4.9 billion people worldwide.The downside is that everybody also has access to you. This includes hackers and viruses that want to steal your data, take control of your computer or even destroy it.To stop this from happening, a firewall controls the data flowing between your computer and the <a href="https://www.livescience.com/internet">internet</a>. A firewall inspects data to make sure it has the right permissions. If it does, it can pass through.

The Firewall

A firewall works at your computer's ports. When we're talking about computer networking, a port isn't the same as a jack or socket you plug your monitor into. Rather it's a virtual entry point where your computer exchanges information with other networks. Every computer has lots of ports, each of which handles different kinds of data. For instance, according to the <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1177080.1177123">Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)</a>, emails often go to port 25 while webpages go to port 80 — even though they both come through the same internet connection

A Virtual Toll Gate

When a firewall checks if data can enter your network, it'll read a message that comes with it called metadata. This will list a string of numbers indicating where the data has come from (known as the source address), where it's going (the 'destination address' aka your PC) and over which port.Whether the data has permission will all depend on a set of rules known as a protocol. These rules can be set to prevent you — or any other particular user – from uploading certain files to the internet.

How The Technology Works

A video file isn't sent from YouTube to your computer as a single file. Instead, it's broken down into smaller pieces called data packets, which reassemble once you receive them, according to the website security company Cloudflare. Packet-filtering firewalls will check each data packet to make sure it has permission to pass through your network.

Data Packets: The Atoms Of The Internet

Learn how a firewall filters out cyber-threats, while still letting you access everything you want to look at online

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AI may be everywhere but is invisible to humans. Even if we can see it, people will most likely be ignorant of the fact that AI algorithms are used to make a product or service work.

Artificial Intelligence is an integral part of society

Social media relies on making users spend as long as possible on the platform. Therefore, algorithms make a dedicated study of each user and identify their interests so that they can continue to interact with the platform. AI's role is to suggest the right content and censor the vast amounts of content posted.

Social Media

AI can suggest the best products that are right for you based on the information available about you and your search history. Many online stores offer a photo-only product search service, where AI processes and analyzes the image and then suggests products similar to the one in the picture. One example is the Google Lens app.

Marketing

Many applications and programs rely primarily on AI to improve image quality and add some professional effects. Adobe Photoshop, for example, uses AI in processing and enhancing images. Smartphones are equipped with AI technologies to capture images in the best quality possible comparable to the quality of professional cameras.

Image Manipulation

Traditional games such as chess and electronic games generally use AI as a fierce competitor on the game's ground and provide a unique experience for every player in the game. In 1996, Gary Kasparov defeated an AI developed by IBM in a chess match, proving that no machine could beat the human mind. A year later, a new AI model defeated Gary, starting a new era of using AI in video games.

Video Games

Artificial intelligence is widely used in many commercial and industrial establishments. The most prominent application is the AI surveillance system which studies the surrounding environment, learns the patterns and behaviours in it, identifies any unusual activity or suspicious movement, and alerts the user directly.

Security and Surveillance

Many countries have been using AI in healthcare, for example, developing systems and devices to make diagnosing COVID-19 as fast, cheap, and accurate as possible. Another example is the device invented by Coala life, The COALA Heart Monitor System, a patch-free Remote Heart Monitor that provides real-time diagnostic-quality ECG analysis and heart sound recordings using AI.

Health

The large gap between the number of employees in the customer service department and the number of their clients has led to inadequate customer service and long waiting times. AI now helps guide customers to solve the problems they face while using the service directly and without delay.

Customer Service

From the beginning, there has been debate about AI and if it can be used in the field of creativity. One of the most prominent applications of AI in this field is museNet. This deep neural network can generate 4-minute musical compositions with ten different instruments that can combine music such as country, Mozart or the Beatles.

Creativity

Up to now, one thing remains clear: whatever the future holds, AI will most definitely play an important role in it. The core of this statement should be “surrounded by science we don’t understand”…

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How Artificial Intelligence Keeps The Internet Running Without Us Knowing

Which Are You? How many emails are in your inbox? If the answer is thousands, or if you often struggle to find a file on your computer among its cluttered hard drive, then you might be classed as a digital hoarder.In the physical world, hoarding disorder has been recognised as a distinct psychiatric condition among people who accumulate excessive amounts of objects to the point that it prevents them living a normal life. Now, research has begun to recognise that hoarding can be a problem in the digital world, too.

Digital Hoarders

A case study published in the British Medical Journal in 2015 described a 47-year-old man who, as well as hoarding physical objects, took around 1,000 digital photographs every day. He would then spend many hours editing, categorising, and copying the pictures onto various external hard drives. He was autistic, and may have been a collector rather than a hoarder — but his digital OCD tendencies caused him much distress and anxiety.

A case study

The authors of this research paper defined digital hoarding as “the accumulation of digital files to the point of loss of perspective which eventually results in stress and disorganisation”. By surveying hundreds of people, my colleagues and I found that digital hoarding is common in the workplace. In a follow-up study, in which we interviewed employees in two large organisations who exhibited lots of digital hoarding behaviours, we identified four types of digital hoarder.

Accumulation

“Collectors” are organised, systematic and in control of their data. “Accidental hoarders” are disorganised, don’t know what they have, and don’t have control over it. The “hoarder by instruction” keeps data on behalf of their company (even when they could delete much of it). Finally, “anxious hoarders” have strong emotional ties to their data — and are worried about deleting it.

Hoearders types

From retaining old emails to accumulating digital files, digital hoarding is emerging as a potential problem for people.

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Digital Hoarders: We’ve Identified Four Types – Which Are You? - Neuroscience News

The pandemic has shuffled the way we work. Many people are switching jobs and career paths, and “non-tech” people are considering a career in tech. If you are interested in turn-of-the-century literature and want to spend your college years doing research and writing essays, do it. You can use it in a tech career.

Changing from "non-tech" to a tech career

Older individuals who have studied the humanities, History, Art, and English are very successful creators, analytical thinkers and researchers. They can take complex problems and find novel solutions. But there has been a shift. According to PBS, only 5 percent of college graduates earned liberal art degrees in 2018. Instead, young people opt for a degree that will lead to a high-paying job and are told they can't make money with a liberal arts degree. However, that is incorrect. Many who have studied humanities have enriched the tech industry.

Humanities enrich the tech industry

Liberal arts students learn how to approach problems from many different perspectives. By regarding these different lenses, they gain a much rounder understanding of a problem and can find solutions that consider the various needs of all the constituents. The tech industry can benefit from the inclusion of people from all academic, professional, and life backgrounds. So use what you already know and consider getting a non-technical role first and then transition into a technical role.

Tech needs more than STEM majors

<ul><li>Seek out new knowledge. Take courses, learn the language, and become friends with those who know things you don't.</li><li>Work with intelligent people. Seek out teams who are smarter than you and work with people you can learn the most from.</li><li>Align yourself to the quality of your product and the quality of your business outcomes.</li><li>Advocate for yourself and the career you want to build.</li><li>Find allies.</li></ul>Be uncomfortable in situations where you don't understand what's happening around you and unreasonably convinced in your ability to learn.

How to grow that first gig in tech into a successful career

Think you can't get a job in tech with a liberal arts degree? Follow these tips to reshape your skills and mold your career in tech.

Yes, you can build a successful career in tech with a liberal arts degree

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