Final Capstone Essay

When I was in 2nd grade my dad was really fascinated in artificial intelligence robots. One day when I was in my living room my dad put on a document of AI robots I started watching with him and I was really intrigued. I wanted to learn more about AI robot designs and how they make robots to look less scary and how that helps the robots. This lead me to deciding that my capstone project topic would be on AI robots. My main inquiry question is: how are artificial intelligence robots made so they don’t look threatening to humans and in what can that be helpful. I did a lot of research and it eventually lead me to the answer: AI robots are made with different materials to look more friendly this helps by making humans more willing to interact with AI robots and that helps them learn more about human behavior. Now that I had my answer I could start on my Ted Talk.

The first thing I had to do was make a script for the Ted Talk. I had to turn my notes into a script and make it so I wasn’t just listing information on my topic. Once I was happy with my script i started looking for images  It took a little while but I found the images I needed. When I finished finding pictures I started on my slideshow. I started putting the images on the slides, I also inserted m script in the speaker notes. After that I worked on memorizing my script it was pretty hard because it was long but I finally got it down.

That is the process of making my capstone presentation and the answer to my main inquiry question. I was really happy with my final result but if I had to change one thing it would be to add more information to my script.

Blog post #2

The interview was for me to get more information to help me make a better project. This aspect of research was really exciting. It was exciting because I was going to interview someone that is an expert on AI robots. Finding a interview wasn’t easy. I had to go to a lot of different sites and I even went to some college sites to find some experts. In the end I chose a website that was about a project that three people founded. There was a special page for them so I clicked on that and saw their emails and so I contacted all of them and only one of them responded. I ended up choosing him. We talked back and forth and we agreed for me to send the questions in an email and he would send me the answers. The interview wasn’t that hard to do because I just had to send the questions but I am happy because he sent me some pretty detailed answers. overall conducting the interview was a very fun and educational experience.

Capstone blog post #1

My main question is:

How are AI robots designed so that they are not threatening to humans and in what ways can they be helpful?

I am curious about this because I think if AI robots were to meet children they would be scared of it because its like a piece of metal and it probably looks intimidating to  children. That is why I chose this question. My sub questions are:

What are AI robots?

What do scientists think AI robots can achieve in the future?

Can AI robots become dangerous and what threat could they pose?

Are there specialists that make AI robots look less intimidating and how do they do so?

What are some jobs AI robots can help with?

I am very excited to see what we will be doing next with capstone.