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Weekly Review

This week was the week of January, 15th, 2024- January, 19th, 2024. This week I learned a lot in all of my new courses but especially so in my Digital Studies course. This week I set up my Domain, registered it, and even posted. I learned how to set links for buttons on my home page and how to customize my blog! I still have more to learn but I am excited to learn more about how I can be a creator online and how to tell my story better.

Setting up my domain took the longest amount of time, and it really was frustrating learning how to use new software. At first, I couldn’t find a name for my site and I spent an hour researching what I could do to make a name click for me. Then after I found a site name it was taken and I had to find another site name that was similar and available. After setting up my domain, and registering it with the school and the course blog, the real work began. I had to download things and watch a lot of YouTube tutorials to even get started.

I created a look for my blog that I absolutely love as a base and look forward to tweaking it to make it better later also how this is a space for me to show my thoughts even though it is for a grade at the moment. For a while, I couldn’t figure out how to edit blog posts and tried editing them on the website editing page, but then finally I saw the blog posts button on my dashboard. After I learned how the software works, I enjoyed everything about setting up my blog. Below you can find the blog posts that I worked on this week!

This week’s Work at a glance:

The Creator- A review

Goals for Digital Studies.

Goals for Digital Studies

I was asked what do I want out of this Class and to be honest, I don’t know. I am taking this class to fulfill a general education requirement but I am also enjoying what the class is going to help me learn even in the first week.

Here are some goals that I want to set for myself

  1. Be more flexible with the programs and software that I use,
  2. Learn how to convey messages better
  3. Be more open to others’ thoughts, and improve from them.
  4. How to convey my creative process

These are all that I have now but of course, they are subject to change!

The Creator- A review

The Creator came out last year and is by far my favorite Ai movie. The Creator is a movie about a soldier in the future who goes undercover in Asia, where they are cohabitating with AI lifeforms against America’s wishes. He is undercover in Asia because he is on a mission to find the creator of higher Ai or Nirmata. He is sent to marry a woman who is believed to be the daughter of Nirmata and ends up falling for her and impregnating her. Late in the pregnancy an accident occurs and she and the child are believed to be dead, so when the soldier returns to Asia in a later mission he is shocked to see evidence of his wife being alive and this sends him on a hunt to find her. On this hunt, he finds a child with the capabilities to shut down a ship that threatens the lives of many Ai lifeforms and the people that they cohabitate with.

The ship’s name is the NOMAD and is an American-owned spacecraft that sends focused beams that kill anything that they land on. Eventually, he finds his wife and shuts down the ship in an attempt to save the people in Asia. This movie exposes us to an alternate future reality where some cultures are tolerant of what Ai will become. The AI machines are lifelike and seem to present real emotions.. one of the instances being an AI robot watching a stripper Ai robot on a hologram and imitating a typical guard with a cigarette. Instead of the traditional approach that gives the impression that we should be scared of Ai, and Ai is the” end of the Human Race”, we find ourselves in an alternate future reality where cohabitation with Ai is possible.

The situations that play out in this movie are somewhat realistic, in the sense that I can see America framing someone else for something that they did as an excuse to wage war on foreign land. I can also see inter-species relationships potentially playing out, as well as some other small details in the movie. This movie gives a new perspective to what AI can bring as opposed to the view that we typically get of writers only wanting to show the bad side. Overall, the movie’s cinematics were amazing, and the storyline kept me engaged the whole time.