This class has taught me a lot that I honestly would not have known or would have ever known if it weren’t for this class. Learning the difference between analog and digital, the makeup of the digital telephone, and other things such as that are certain things that are useful to know, and I would probably have never learned it if it weren’t for this class. I remember the class specifically started way back in the beginning of the semester with a discussion on Rembrandt’s Night Watch, and how what we see in it today, while it could be what it originally had looked like, could very well be a completely different version from its original creation. However, a majority of this class was focused on creating our webpage and blog so that throughout the semester, they could be posted on occasionally about the topics we were learning in class. These blogs are a combination of what I have learned in class as well as my personal opinion on things such as whether or not AI can create art, my opinion on some Criminal Justice policies, and other general posts and statements about real world things.
I think for me, creating this webpage and blog was really interesting because it’s something I have never done before. I have always been pretty reluctant about this type of stuff because I’m not really one to commonly express my opinions on topics like the ones we have learned because I simply don’t feel confident in my abilities to properly speak on them. However, during the third and final Socrates Cafe, I felt confident speaking there as it was on a topic I felt like I could relate to, that being whether or not AI can create art. With that, as I have said in a previous post, I don’t feel like AI can create art because art is an emotion-driven thing, AI doesn’t have the capability of understanding human emotion and therefore I don’t feel like it can create true, meaningful art.
This class has also allowed me to think more in-depth about things that are digital and things that are analog, and my thoughts on this specifically moves to art. Art becomes corrupted overtime, given the environmental impacts and possible damages it may experience along the way, like analog things. A digital form of art to me is the original, not yet damaged and fresh out of the making. Overall, I think this class truly allowed me to view things such as art in a different light than I normal would, as well as my car radio, while I never use it for its actual channels…I think it’s interesting that I now know that the static noise can be referred to as analog as the signal is being interrupted.