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Artificial intelligence, quite literally one of the most fascinating aspects of computer science. AI has been a huge part of our history from all those old movies to movies like iRobot, terminator, age of Ultron, and more. AI has always seemed out of reach to the general public, but it is here and it’s advancing more and more every year. With the public watching movies like those and just social media, there have been some issues with the advancing of AI, and this is where things like machine learning come in. Machine learning is the newest term that is being used for AI and it is described as a system in which it learns based on experience and data. There has and always will be fear when it comes to AI, like Stephen Hawking says, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." This is further pushed when you add deepfakes into the equation. In the first blog post, we spoke about the different ways we can inoculate ourselves to deepfakes bu

The dot.com to dot.bomb presentation covers what happened back then and is seen through the eyes of dinosaurs. The Dot.com bomb refers to when the www was developed by Tim Berners Lee and released to the general public. It was written using HTML, a coding language that allows a user to create interactive and visual web pages. This revolutionized the internet and brought about a decade in which companies boomed and the market was healthy. The startup.com movie gave us a perfect example of one of those companies, govWorks. They went bankrupt after not being able to adapt and burning through all the money they received as investments. Man, companies had a tragic ending like this and that is why the dinosaurs were used for this presentation because they represent a species/race (companies) that were wiped out in one fell swoop because they couldn’t handle change. Just like in the past these dinosaurs and companies died off because they couldn’t adapt to the ever-changing market and the one

Brian forth was our final guest speaker. He is the CEO of side crafting inc. They specialize in web development. This is a 180 from his first profession. Brian started out as an elementary school teacher and was among the youngest teachers there. He later goes into software and saw a gap in the market for his idea which is a company that specializes in offering web development expertise to a plethora of clients from many different markets. With this diverse group of clients and his strict rule of no more than 15% of the company’s cash flow coming from one client, he and his team have been able to keep their company afloat and profitable for 20 years in a very competitive market.  During the pandemic, his split between the office and remote and his company barely took a hit because the diverse clientele like hospitals, banks, zoos, cities, etc. kept the company from going bankrupt or cutting costs like others had too. In fact, they are getting ready to expand in Tacoma to a bigger offic

Startup.com is a documentary following three people starting a company and the journey they went on from being an idea to a full-on company. They were in a time where the internet was becoming big, and they had an opportunity to set themselves up for life. The point of govWorks was to create a way to easily pay for things like transportation and fees like parking tickets. At one point they attracted enough investors that they had 60 million in assets and over 200 employees but that’s when they peaked, it all went downhill from there, they also covered the different issues that arose during their time together as shareholders. Tom and the others disagreed on a lot of different things which led to Tom’s shares being bought out and him leaving. This resulted in him being the only of the three to make money from this startup, he made 700k. They faced multiple challenges like when they were offered $17 million but lost the deal when they couldn’t even get in touch with their lawyers. They h