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Week One Summary

The assignment I enjoyed most this week was the AI film assignment as I got to write about one of my most watched films, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” While I have experience working with WordPress, one thing that annoyed me this week was the WordPress login process. I forgot that you have to sign in through the school where I had been trying to login in the usual way which would just add /admin to my url. I ended up almost running out of password attempts and getting really frustrated. Luckily, I figured it out before getting locked out and making the posts has been smooth sailing from there. I am also very fortunate that I setup this domain in a previous digital studies course, meaning that I didn’t have to go through the hair pulling process of site setup again. The course goals assignment went well and I shared that I am excited to learn the more creative side of WordPress development.

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Course Goals

I would mainly like to grow in my knowledge of WordPress development. In my current internship I am adding content to the business’ WordPress website and it would be nice to play around and be more creative here so I know what does and what doesn’t work professionally. It would be nice to play around with all of the different themes and customization tools offered by WordPress.

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DS 106 AI Film

An AI film that I watched was “2001: A Space Odyssey.” This film has a very pessimistic view of AI and was one of the first films to perceive it as a potential threat to humanity. In connection the should we use AI at all question, I don’t think this film outright says that we should never use it. HAL and AI are implied to be tools that we as humans need to conquer in order to reach the next stage in our human evolution. As the film suggests, we can conquer AI and therefore prevent the apocalypse by using more manual tools, like the wrench in the movie, to overcome our dependence upon AI. In my personal experience, I have found AI to be very useful when it comes to the creative side of my professional experience and I think that it should be embraced more. I have done a lot of copywriting for different internships and using AI as a tool to rewrite my copy to be more cohesive and to edit has been very useful.