Reflect on your initial perceptions/understandings of AI and automated decision-making – before this studio, what came to mind when you heard these terms? Consider the ways you’ve encountered AI and automation in your everyday life? What do you hope to get out of this studio?
Before the first semester class, Artificial Intelligence was not something that l had thought about actively in my everyday life. Still, I knew it was there through the internet and my social media. The first thing that came to mind when asked about AI was ChatGPT, Spotify and Google’s search engine. The main reason why l thought of these things was with ChatGPT, l have heard about it from previous classes and social media. Spotify is an app that l use daily and l read an article not too long ago about how it uses AI to recommend songs to its users, create and change playlists daily and use previous listening data for its DJ, l had also thought of Google search engine because not too long ago when you would search up questions it would give an answer generated by AI, the answers would be posted on social media because of how bizarre they were. But Automated Decision Making was something that l had never heard about before and knew nothing about, after our first class l had come out with a basic understanding of what it is and what it does, and l thought it was intriguing that it can make so many decisions for us in our everyday lives. After our first week of classes, it has made me realise how much AI and ADM are used in our everyday lives, from streaming services such as Netflix, similar to Spotify using AI to recommend films and TV shows based on previous watches and what they think you would like; YouTube using AI to recommend the best videos for its viewers.
Being in this class, l am hoping to gain a better understanding of AI systems and how they work, but from learning about ADM this week, l want to learn more about how AI and ADM can affect our everyday lives and decisions. With the usage of AI getting larger with no end in sight, it will be useful to understand what it is and how it gets used to make big decisions. While l don’t know much about it now, every week l am hoping to have a better understanding of everything that we are learning about.