5 research outputs found
Data Centers: Centers of Controversy in the Big Tech AI Buildout
No full textThis is a project looking at industry reports on environmental impacts of data centers for a broad overview of the issues raised by the current AI-driven data center buildout. It uses news coverage to add dimension to the impacts experienced by the particular communities in which these massive data centers are being constructed
Coming around: Tutors, orientation, and prolepsis
No full textNovice tutors often conceptualize learning how to tutor as a kind of metaphorical journey, one with a compelling, but not fully recognized, destination. Cognitively speaking, they are learning how to tutor while at the same time learning what the activity of tutoring means. This paper seeks to position tutor education within the conceptually rich field of teacher education, especially as it is informed by insights from sociocultural theory (SCT). Using tutors’ reflective narratives, the author illuminates how orientation to task, a fundamental concept in SCT, changes over time through frequent and intensive reflective writing, when carried out in combination with practical tutoring activities. Specifically, the data suggests that proleptic engagement (identifying elements of the future expert self in ongoing novice activity) and affective engagement are important signals of development. The journey is particularly challenging because – to interrogate the metaphor – the novice is trying to build the track while riding the train to the terminus
Imagining trauma: Memory amplification and the role of elaborative cognitions
No full text© 2018 Elsevier. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
This author accepted manuscript is made available following 24 month embargo from date of publication (April 2018) in accordance with the publisher’s archiving policyBackground and objectives: Trauma victims, such as war veterans, often remember
additional traumatic events over time: the “memory amplification effect”. This effect is
associated with the re-experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
including frequent and intrusive images of the trauma. One explanation for memory
amplification is that people gradually incorporate new, imagined information about the
trauma with what they actually experienced, leading to an amplified memory for what
actually happened. We investigated this proposal here. Methods: Participants viewed highly
negative and graphic photographs and recorded their intrusions. Critically, we instructed
some participants to elaborate on their intrusions—that is, we asked them to imagine details
about the trauma beyond what they actually witnessed. We assessed memory for the
traumatic photos twice, 24-hours apart. Results: The elaboration condition experienced fewer
intrusions about the photos compared to the control condition. Furthermore, the elaboration
condition were less susceptible to memory amplification compared to controls. Limitations:
The use of negative photos allowed experimental control, however does not permit
generalization of our findings to real-world traumatic experiences. Conclusions: Our findings
suggest that effortful imagination of new trauma-related details leads to a reduction in
intrusions and an increased tendency to not endorse trauma exposure over time. One
explanation for this finding is that elaboration enhanced conceptual processing of the trauma
analogue, therefore reducing intrusions. Critically, this reduction in intrusions affected
participants’ tendency to endorse trauma exposure, which is consistent with the realitymonitoring
explanation for memory amplification
Ghosts of remembrance and sentiment – replication of humanity and authenticity on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let me Go and Klara and the Sun
No full textKazuo Ishiguro is an author worried with the technological advancements and its effects on memory, ontology, identity and psychology, and the way they are depicted in dystopian fiction. He has written two novels that are thoroughly analysed within the scope of the aforementioned topics. The object of study includes research that tackles chosen academic articles, such as “Replication, Regeneration or Organic Birth: The Clone in Deryn Rees-Jones” "Quiver" and Donna Haraway's “A Cyborg Manifesto”. “Friends and Family Figures in Contemporary Fiction”, by Zöe Brigley, in 2006, other books that are of related studies, such as Dystopia: A Natural History, by Gregory Claeys, in 2017, and even websites that hold important information, such as “Dystopia as an Inverted Hero's Journey”, by Alex Howe. Within the scope of the dissertation, there is an adopted methodology based on concepts of the studies of culture, dystopia and memory studies, with the support of experts’ contributions in articles and books, in order to read both novels by the author and decode the cultural topics they focus on, as well as the issues both novels discuss.
The objective of the dissertation is to show the characterization of identity and dystopia as a whole and within the scope of the novels Never Let me Go and Klara and the Sun, the ontological and psychological problems that both novels arise, and also its focus on memory, and the study of it within Never Let me Go. Also, Ishiguro’s quality as a writer is addressed in the work. The distinction between Artificial Intelligence and humane feelings, as well as the issues with ethics and emotional distinct expressions of human and artificial beings created as human emulations are also explored. Most importantly, to respond to the question of whether or not, an Artificial Intelligent individual could be able to respond in other levels in a regular humane way.O autor Kazuo Ishiguro é conhecido pela sua preocupação com os avanços tecnológicos e os seus efeitos sobre temas como memória, ontologia, identidade, e psicologia e seu impacto no texto distópico. Nesse contexto, escreveu duas obras que têm vindo a ser analisadas pormenorizadamente pela comunidade de investigação na última década: Never Let me Go e Klara and the Sun. O objeto de estudo desta pesquisa inclui a análise e utilização de artigos académicos selecionados, como "Replication, Regeneration or Organic Birth: The Clone in Deryn Rees-Jones' “Quiver” and “0A Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna Haraway'. Além disso, também são considerados livros relacionados, como Dystopia: A Natural History de Gregory Claeys, e sítios que contenham informações importantes, como o artigo "Dystopia as an Inverted Hero's Journey" de Alex Howe. Kazuo Ishiguro é também um vencedor do prémio nobel. Considerando os dois trabalhos mencionados, de referência na Ficção Científica, analisámos as implicações da distopia, ontologia, identidade, psicologia, memória e sentimentos em ambos. O objetivo da dissertação é explorar aspectos relativos à ontologia, identidade e à distopia como um todo, bem como no escopo dos romances Never Let Me Go e Klara and the Sun. A pesquisa também se concentra na problemática psicológica que os romances abordam, além do foco no tema da memória, com uma atenção especial a Never Let Me Go. No âmbito desta dissertação, é adotada uma metodologia que envolve a análise das obras do autor e a descodificação dos tópicos culturais explorados, bem como as questões discutidas. É explorada a distinção entre inteligência artificial e sentimentos humanos, assim como a temática ética e as distintas expressões emocionais de seres humanos e seres artificiais criados como emulações humanas. Além disso, abordamos a qualidade literária de Kazuo Ishiguro.
No cerne da pesquisa está a questão de saber se um indivíduo com inteligência artificial seria capaz de responder em níveis semelhantes aos de um ser humano quanto às suas respostas emocionais e éticas. Em síntese, a presente dissertação propõe-se a aprofundar a compreensão de temas centrais abordados nas obras de Ishiguro, destacando a sua preocupação com as implicações dos avanços tecnológicos na sociedade e na natureza humana, com foco na identidade, distopia, memória, ontologia e psicologia, e examinando a possibilidade de respostas emocionais e éticas em indivíduos com inteligência artificial
Ghosts of remembrance and sentiment – replication of humanity and authenticity on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let me Go and Klara and the Sun
No full textKazuo Ishiguro is an author worried with the technological advancements and its effects on memory, ontology, identity and psychology, and the way they are depicted in dystopian fiction. He has written two novels that are thoroughly analysed within the scope of the aforementioned topics. The object of study includes research that tackles chosen academic articles, such as “Replication, Regeneration or Organic Birth: The Clone in Deryn Rees-Jones” "Quiver" and Donna Haraway's “A Cyborg Manifesto”. “Friends and Family Figures in Contemporary Fiction”, by Zöe Brigley, in 2006, other books that are of related studies, such as Dystopia: A Natural History, by Gregory Claeys, in 2017, and even websites that hold important information, such as “Dystopia as an Inverted Hero's Journey”, by Alex Howe. Within the scope of the dissertation, there is an adopted methodology based on concepts of the studies of culture, dystopia and memory studies, with the support of experts’ contributions in articles and books, in order to read both novels by the author and decode the cultural topics they focus on, as well as the issues both novels discuss.
The objective of the dissertation is to show the characterization of identity and dystopia as a whole and within the scope of the novels Never Let me Go and Klara and the Sun, the ontological and psychological problems that both novels arise, and also its focus on memory, and the study of it within Never Let me Go. Also, Ishiguro’s quality as a writer is addressed in the work. The distinction between Artificial Intelligence and humane feelings, as well as the issues with ethics and emotional distinct expressions of human and artificial beings created as human emulations are also explored. Most importantly, to respond to the question of whether or not, an Artificial Intelligent individual could be able to respond in other levels in a regular humane way.O autor Kazuo Ishiguro é conhecido pela sua preocupação com os avanços tecnológicos e os seus efeitos sobre temas como memória, ontologia, identidade, e psicologia e seu impacto no texto distópico. Nesse contexto, escreveu duas obras que têm vindo a ser analisadas pormenorizadamente pela comunidade de investigação na última década: Never Let me Go e Klara and the Sun. O objeto de estudo desta pesquisa inclui a análise e utilização de artigos académicos selecionados, como "Replication, Regeneration or Organic Birth: The Clone in Deryn Rees-Jones' “Quiver” and “0A Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna Haraway'. Além disso, também são considerados livros relacionados, como Dystopia: A Natural History de Gregory Claeys, e sítios que contenham informações importantes, como o artigo "Dystopia as an Inverted Hero's Journey" de Alex Howe. Kazuo Ishiguro é também um vencedor do prémio nobel. Considerando os dois trabalhos mencionados, de referência na Ficção Científica, analisámos as implicações da distopia, ontologia, identidade, psicologia, memória e sentimentos em ambos. O objetivo da dissertação é explorar aspectos relativos à ontologia, identidade e à distopia como um todo, bem como no escopo dos romances Never Let Me Go e Klara and the Sun. A pesquisa também se concentra na problemática psicológica que os romances abordam, além do foco no tema da memória, com uma atenção especial a Never Let Me Go. No âmbito desta dissertação, é adotada uma metodologia que envolve a análise das obras do autor e a descodificação dos tópicos culturais explorados, bem como as questões discutidas. É explorada a distinção entre inteligência artificial e sentimentos humanos, assim como a temática ética e as distintas expressões emocionais de seres humanos e seres artificiais criados como emulações humanas. Além disso, abordamos a qualidade literária de Kazuo Ishiguro.
No cerne da pesquisa está a questão de saber se um indivíduo com inteligência artificial seria capaz de responder em níveis semelhantes aos de um ser humano quanto às suas respostas emocionais e éticas. Em síntese, a presente dissertação propõe-se a aprofundar a compreensão de temas centrais abordados nas obras de Ishiguro, destacando a sua preocupação com as implicações dos avanços tecnológicos na sociedade e na natureza humana, com foco na identidade, distopia, memória, ontologia e psicologia, e examinando a possibilidade de respostas emocionais e éticas em indivíduos com inteligência artificial
