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Week 6 Summary

Week 6 was all about creating video and developing more of my course character through implementation.

Talk to the Bot – Giving Dr. Oblivion an Offer to Become a Super Robot to Take Over the World

I decided to do more the Talk to the Bot assignment, and incorporated my course character Hwei by making him ask Dr. Oblivion to join his evil cause.
I surprisingly learned more about coding elements in the process, and it was a fun experience as a computer science major. Most of the tools weren’t too difficult to use, and I had a blast putting together the video linked above.

Hwei Against a Mega Corporation: His Take on Aggressive Technologies

The next assignment was to develop my character further in relation to Aggressive Technologies, a giant megacorporation that seeks to become the Amazon or Google of our DS106 world. I could see a lot of parallels between the goals of Aggressive Technologies and my character Hwei, so I made sure to hone in on those ideas and flesh them out more to give Hwei’s story more substance.

Finally here are my daily creates for the week. One was a poem and the other was a quick photo edit.

Daily Create Roundup: Week 6

I took away some lessons from this week’s daily creates, but it might not be what you’re expecting.

The weeks are counting down quicker than I ever imagined. This is a blessing and a curse at the same time, but I’m starting to realize that I will be carrying these lessons from DS106 along with me for the rest of my life.

Daily Create Roundup: Week 6

Here are my daily creates for Week 6!

The first one is a poem about how nature was a teacher to me, and I wrote a poem about my experiences playing golf.

When the wind blows upon the little white ball,
one must go with the push rather than pull

One of the lessons I learned while playing this sport was that mother nature won’t adhere to our wishes and do whatever she pleases. It is the player’s responsibility to account for natural occurrences such as a wind, and play along with the elements rather than fight against it.

The next one is a quick photo edit over an old photo with a man listening to something.

I tried to overlay music notes I found on Google, but I had a hard time overlaying without the pictures hiding behind the background. A bit low effort, but this is all I could come up with in 10-15 minutes. And I think that’s fine. I’m coming to realize that it’s more about attempting the process with these daily creates, rather than striving for perfection.

Hwei Against a Mega Corporation: His Take on Aggressive Technologies

Course Character: Hwei the Creator

Original Hwei biography as a reference

As Hwei ventured on his quest for world domination through the harnessing of AI powers and creating life through his research, Aggressive Technologies was a corporation that he never saw eye to eye with.

Aggressive Technologies looked to take the AI market by storm, engulfing all of the industries pertaining to, e-commerce, social media, among other fields of tech. Their sole focus on expansion and obsession with creating a monopoly has made their corporation one that seeks to trample upon others to gain the upper hand.

On one hand, Hwei may seem to have the same overall goals as Aggressive Technologies, taking over the world and having the power to shape anything he touches. However, it has never a goal of his to gain monetarily from his research and creations. In fact, his ideal new world would consist of no monetary value on any item, idea, or being. All he ever wanted was to create the way he wanted to; for the world to see the potential beauties of the world from his perspective. The purpose of his new AI beings would not be for his gain, but rather for the betterment his world (at least for his perfect creations).

To be fair, some of Hwei’s equipment and parts of his laboratory were stolen from Aggressive Technologies, as he sent out his rogue thief programmed robots to infiltrate their headquarters. The masterminds behind Aggressive Technologies know about the research of Hwei and the existence of some of his true to life robots, but have not identified him as a serious threat yet. There will soon be a clash between the two parties, as Aggressive Technologies is threatened by Hwei’s unwillingness to back down to their expansion, while Hwei fights back against the irrational development of AI in his eyes, ruining the beauty of his craft.

Talk to the Bot – Giving Dr. Oblivion an Offer to Become a Super Robot to Take Over the World

For my choice of assignment this week, I decided to do the Talk to the Bot assignment. I actually did the Consult with your doctor as one of my optional assignments for a previous week, so I already had experience generating speech from Dr. Oblivion and creating a narrative. I decided to make my course character, Hwei, ask Dr. Oblivion to become one of his evil sentient robots with a body that would aid him in taking over the world by creating perfect AI beings that would take over humans.

Learning how to generate the lip synced video was a whole different process compared to the original Consult with your doctor assignment. It wasn’t hard, but it really did take a while and I think having a higher end PC and good internet speeds expedited the process for me. The process was streamlined enough to where I only had to click a few buttons and create the right folders. The tutorial given was very helpful for me to follow directions and create the videos.

What really intrigued me was the Python code used for the entire process. There was a “show code” button for each of the processes, and I looked through lines while I waited for my videos to generate. I was fascinated to see how each piece of code worked for the application. and it was definitely some good future personal project ideas for me in the future.

For the Dr. Oblivion clips generated, I was a little disappointed at how the lip sync wasn’t all that great. I’ve seen some other examples at the top of DS106 weekly assignment posts, and those look to be synced a little better than mine. There were parts where at the end of a period, the Doc’s lips kept moving and it felt a little jarring to me. For Hwei’s voice, I used a basic speech generator online to make mp3’s of his voice. I tried to use an AI voice replicator to take the original League of Legends game voice for hwei, but many of them required a paid subscription and was out of reach for me. I spliced it all together by using the Clipchamp online video editor, and it only took a few minutes to put the video, audio, and Hwei’s avatar picture together.

Overall, I had fun with this assignment and I learned a lot about AI generation for audio and video. Hopefully I can even make an AI bot myself with my own code! I’ll make sure to cater it towards taking over the world with AI, or else Hwei might hold my life against me 🙁

Weekly Summary: wk 6

This week I had a small issue in deciding what option I could do. I wanted to do option A. Talk to the Bot, it seemed fun and easy to create the video of Dr. Oblivion. As I started to create the assignment on Sunday, it took the whole day for it to convert the audio to a video so I gave up on it. I was upset it took hours for it to process but, in the end, it worked out well. I decided to do option B of 3 assignment banks and Developing your character. I had fun creating the 3 video assignment bank. Creating the commercial for a solar lawn mower was pretty fun. I had the idea of a solar lawn mower from a project I did in high school so I was pretty excited to create a commercial, it was almost like seeing it come to life. For the second assignment bank, I did a TikTok of my dog. I had a video I took of her over winter break and I added a filter on her making her look disfigured, it was pretty funny. Lastly, I created a video that correlates with the theme for this course and it is 8 helpful tips for using AI. Since AI is and has been around and is still developing I thought it would be a cool idea to make a video of how to use AI and what not to do with it. Overall, I enjoyed learning new applications and creating videos. As well as, creating a background story for my AI character.

Daily Creative: wk 6

Commercial: Solar Lawn Mower??

Tick-Tok-Doggy

8 Helpful Tips to Use AI

Dolly’s impact in Aggressive Technologies

Dolly’s impact in Aggressive Technologies

Dolly has started to work in Aggressive Technologies, she’s has been excited to work for this company and wants to help the company advance in future technology in a creative way to keep it growing internationally. As soon as she started working there, she was assigned as an intern, she didn’t like the workplace environment, the building had all dark and gloomy colors with no windows anywhere to be seen. She imagined how are they all going to perform their best in this workplace that has a prison like environment. Dolly as an artist wanted to add a splash of color in this workplace. Once she was assigned to assist a financial investor, Mr. Hydro, she saw how tired and miserable he appeared working at his desk. Stacks upon stacks of paper everywhere around him, snack wrappers around him, and balls of paper on the ground. Dolly was determined to help him in any way she could. Dolly started by cleaning around his work area and was able to acquire a desk for herself to put next to him to be there whenever he needed her assistance. Mr. Hydro was behind on some reports, so Dolly helped Mr. Hydro with the next upcoming report. The following week, Dolly and Mr. Hydro worked after hours. Mr. Hydro liked her positive personality and her creativity on reports he wanted to make her his official assistant. Weeks passed, and Dolly had a positive impact on the company and was able to change the work environment into a more suitable place, by changing the environment and adding color into the work area she was able to help the company improve their performance by 30%. Causing them collaborate with other technical companies. With Dolly’s optimistic and positive personality, she was able to have a powerful impact on the company.

8 Helpful Tips to Use AI

For this assignment bank, I did 8 helpful tips on how to use AI. I decided to correlate it to our theme for this course and I also added my AI character Dolly to voice over the whole video. Since AI is and has been a big tool for anyone in any work environment such as workplaces, and schools. I thought it would be helpful to give some advice on how to use it and what not to do with AI. I used Vimeo to create the video, in the beginning, I was confused about finding the tools and fonts to add to my video and I started to play around with it, to get a sense of how this application works. Once, I was able to get adjusted to the application it was easy to create my video. It was pretty stressful at first because I was unsure of how and what to make the video about but I’m happy how the results came out. Sources: 8 Helpful Tips for Using AI…

Tick-Tok-Doggy

For this assignment Bank, I had to create a Tiktok of my pet, with a silly filter, a trending sound, or voice over it. I had a video of my I took over winter break with this silly filter on her. I had fun doing this because I love my little dog shes an 8-year-old beagle and I miss her.

Commercial: Solar Lawn Mower??

For this assignment bank, I created a commercial for a product coming out in the future. I used my Ai character to voice over it since we need to do at least two assignment banks with our Ai character involved in our assignments. I used Vimeo to create this video but, I had a small issue with the sound I could not figure out how to turn down the music to hear my character better but overall I enjoyed creating this.