Transcript Green

The Green Team
 Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it.
 The case against it.
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
The Green Team
 Leader
 Marc Hanlon
 Speaker 3
 Marc Hanlon
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Helpers:
Magali Vaccon
 Speaker 1
 Billy Doran
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Helpers:
Mark Egan
 Rebuttal
 Niall Glynn
 Speaker 2
 Daniel Kavanagh
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Helpers:
Derek Fitzgerald
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
Our Argument
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Speaker 1 : Billy Doran
What does the motion mean? Definition of keywords.
Technology is precipitated by human desires, wants and needs.
Introduction
Speaker 2 : Daniel Kavanagh
Artificial Intelligence
Creation (Playing God)
In our own image
Speaker 3 : Marc Hanlon
Summary
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
Definitions
 The motion is stating that, Information Technology is molding us
(people) to be more like I.T., more than we mold I.T. to be more
like people.
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
Speaker 1
 Billy Doran
 Point 1: Technology is precipitated by human desires,
wants and needs.
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
Speaker 2
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Daniel Kavanagh
Point 1: Artificial Intelligence
Point 2: Creation (Playing God)
Point 3: In our own image
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
Point 1
 Artificial Intelligence
 Examples of AI problems are
computer vision (building a
system that can understand
images as well as a human) and
natural language processing
(building a system that can
understand and speak a human
language as well as a human).
Asimo
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
Point 2
 Creation (Playing God)
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Creator: God – www.dictionary.com
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
 We created robots in our own image.
God
http://www.copadorer.com/
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
Point 3
 In our own image.
 When do you draw the line
between a robot being a robot
and a robot being a life form?
 Life form: The characteristic of a
mature organism. - www.dictionary.com
Hertz
http://radio.weblogs.com/
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
The Motion
 These points have shown the motion to be FALSE in
that we are never-ending in our quest to shape
technology.
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.
Speaker 3
 Marc Hanlon
1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it.