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This week has been fun for this course. I took the SAM test and did great. I am somewhat worried about the next few SAM tests, although I knew most answers to the last test. The first test for this course last week I was definitely worried about but I did great. So happy about that.

This weeks topic for discussion. Rise of the Machines. Wow! Yet another article that is hard for me to even wrap my head around. The most interesting thing, in my opinion, was the research project and discovering robots lying. They programmed something around 100 robots and placed them in an arena. Programmed to find a piece of food (represented as a blue ring) and the robot that finds it is supposed to turn on a blue light atop it's "head". All the while these robots are speaking with each other and telling every other robot where the food is. After several runs of this project, the robots began evolving and hoarding the resources. They began doing this even though this was NEVER in their original programming. This is incredibly interesting to me. How are they doing this without being ordered to do so? They are learning by themselves, and that seems somewhat dangerous to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for advance in technology. I think it can take us so far, in the not so distant future. However, this is quite remarkable to me. How in just a few short hours, or days, the robots were able to begin learning for themselves. The article did also say many AI scientist's believe we are far from Artificial intelligence due to how little we understand our own brains. I just have to end this blog with WOW! This is an awesome article.

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This week in class has been particularly frustrating for me. As I work full time, and am attempting to stay caught up in my classes while watching my child has proven to be incredibly difficult. I am starting to see why young parents have such a hard time obtaining higher education. I was immediately relieved of this frustration once I found our exam was able to be done at home and at anytime we see fit. Thank you so much Professor Cagney.

On the topic of the $750,000 lawsuit, wow! This article is particularly interesting to me because it poses a few questions in my mind. What happened to freedom of speech? Why must people feel the need to make false accusations against small businesses? Also, who is telling the truth about the work that was done? There is not much information in this article about the overall issue. I assume that it may be due to privacy. It is hard to have an opinion over this article as well, considering this small business owner must have some kind of level head. Owning a business takes some kind of intelligence. Then the woman making the accusation is a retired Captain from the military meaning she must have at the least a Bachelors degree and must be overly analytic. Being previous military, I know that officers have VERY high standards and only accept the best.

-Kal

Good Evening,

I am actually turning this in late because I was at the coast this weekend with my wife and child. What a great time we had there, with our view right on the beach, our 2 mile stretch of beach walk, and of course the amazing seafood. Anyways, this week in class has been good thus far. I kind of just jumped in mid week through, but I am already learning how to do new things. Current topics, there are so many things that people can talk about in modern times. So many things changing, as well as many problems happening in society. I'm interested in the shooting that happened last week. It was awful when I heard about this. I've heard a few rumors and read a couple of articles, it seems that the shooter had asked for all of Christan faith to stand up, then shot them all in the head. To me this rose an interesting question. They must have known something horrible was going to happen to them. So, would I have stood up, wondering whether I would be killed or saved? Would I have taken the chance thinking of god and taking that bullet in his name? I'm still meddling over this. Anyways, thank you very much.

-Kaleb