Ai Weiwei More than just an artist; political activist‚ sculptor‚ photographer‚ and architect Ai Weiwei merges traditional techniques and imagery with personal experience in order to show his tumultuous relationship with the Chinese government. “He Xie‚” an installation of thousands of porcelain crabs. They are (not too carefully) arranged in a large circle piled up on one another. The individual objects become one pile which makes them virtually indistinguishable from each other. The piece is
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Robert Eisiminger Ben Rosecrans 3/6/13 Ai Weiwei The documentary about Ai Weiwei art is extremely idealistic for China. I believe his work is necessarily how it looks but the idea it is trying to spread. Ai Weiwei is trying to change how China thinks‚ because the Chinese people are neglected of self thought without fear of punishment. Ai Weiwei is not afraid to try and spread the idea of self thought‚ and just wants China to relinquish its hold over its peoples mind. His work questions what
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Ai WeiWei Ai WeiWei blurred the lines between the aesthetic and the political. According to the internet‚ aesthetic is defined as concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. Ai WeiWei used art to “protest” against the Chinese government. Ai Weiwei was a creative man who thought of ideas how to represent the names of all the children who were killed in a deadly earthquake. A commentator in the movie claimed that Ai WeiWei was doing a job that the government should be doing. A deadly
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Anh Le Art & Craft of Writing Tuesday‚ October 29th‚ 2013 Ai WeiWei Art Review: “Straight” Art is one of the oldest ways in which humans communicate. Art can be dated back to humanities’ first steps‚ used as a mean to record and worship‚ such as the examples found in cave paintings of the Lascaux cave in France or the Venus of Willendolf. (Source #1) And for a long time‚ art did not deviate from its original path as a tool for society. Artists lived only as servants to their churches‚
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philosopher‚ known for creating the Chinese Room thought experiment to challenge the notion of strong AI. Searle’s work‚ Minds‚ Brains and Programs‚ introduces the Chinese Room and provides answers to many of the replies that came from presenting the thought experiment to the public. According to Searle‚ AI is a rigorous tool used for solving problems that will be more precise than any human can be. Strong AI‚ however is not just a tool. Rather “the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind‚ in
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‘Assess the claim that god created humanity for a purpose’ It can be argued that god did create humanity for a purpose‚ as why would he endow us with sense‚ reason and intellect if he intended us to forgo their use? It therefore logically follows that we must have some purpose‚ hidden or not that we are expected to fulfil‚ also why would the bible detail the creation of humans in such detail as is demonstrated in genesis 2‚ why would god‚ in this story‚ prioritise mankind over all others when the
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faces. Furthermore‚ an artificial general intelligence has similar abilities as humans do to achieve a task (Goertzel & Wang‚ 2006‚ p.5). Hal 9000 is considered to be a strong AI because he is capable of modelling himself to the human mind to such an extent that it matches or exceeds it. Kumar (2008‚ p.14) points out‚ strong AI assumes that a program has the potential of being conscious‚ self-aware‚ however it may not have the ability to process thoughts like humans. Hence‚ Hal 9000 is self-aware because
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Reality Shows In china: A Road to a More Democratic China or Not? In 2005 up to 400 million viewers‚ nearly a third of the population of China sat to watch the grand finale of The Chinese version of American Idol Supergirl Idol. The winner Li Yuchan was chosen via text messages receiving 3.5 million votes. Apart from voting through new age technology ‚the 2005 finale also was covered by over 100 newspapers with series of articles and the website sina.com alone received 2.4 million comments on the
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INTRODUCTION Ever since I have read turing test‚ AI and robotics have always fascinated me. I always wondered how a computer can compete human intelligence. When the first robot‚ its name‚ was commercially launched my fascination turned into the passion to take up research in the subject. Thus‚ I took up AI & Robotics as my research topic. AI is a branch of computer science‚ which deals with the study‚ and creation of computer systems that exhibit some kind of intelligence. Intelligent
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benefit of all the invitations looking the same while also making your life a whole lot easier. It is because of situations like these that artificial intelligence and computers are of great importance to our society today. Artificial Intelligence‚ or AI‚ has many definitions‚ but as defined by Michael C. Harris it is “the science of creating machines to solve problems and do work that is too complicated for the human brain to do by itself” (Michael‚ C. H. (2011). Artificial Intelligence pg.5) as stated
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