While I initially thought that I would not enjoy this class very much as it was not in my preferences, I can honestly say that after my first week in the class, that I am not only intrigued, but find myself wanting to explore more about AI in society. Hearing “AI” being used frequently in conversations today never really grasped my attention as I had in my mind that AI was something that sure, is growing and expanding, but I had no idea to the extent. I was not even aware that a lot of what I do on a regular basis is because of AI, such as google translate!
Daniel, our studio leader has mentioned a couple times in class that “AI isn’t magic” which though is obvious, it made me realise that I was under the impression that AI is something that is always just there, and able, which it is not. Even AI has its limits, where it then depends on actual brains from humans to formulate ways around these limits by feeding the AI new information or in a different way. In our first class, we explored coding with two special visitors who taught us how to fix a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors so that when you pressed ‘Play’, the two hands would do either of the three, with all possibilities of wins or draws as options. This was not as simple as a normal game of rock paper scissors, but after a while of figuring it out, I can say it was very rewarding, and that I have a new respect for people that code!
In this class, I hope that I will continue to explore the way AI is being used across the world, in all ways. Although it is still new to me, and I am fairly disinterested usually with all things AI, I think it is an important subject to learn about and will be highly beneficial to my knowledge as a media student. I am wanting to pursue film media and PR after I finish uni and I know that AI will and is already playing a large role in film from script analysis, AI video editing, and even AI simulated characters. It will be interesting to further explore down this film and TV side of AI which hopefully I can do a lot more of this semester!