For a person like me majoring in Computer Science, this talk highlighted the importance of presenting ideas to the world. Chris in his professional world is certainly a genius roboticist, but in this talk, he has to approach a wider audience, to show the product of his effort to the world. So, he used different rhetorically effective approaches like metaphors, contrasts to illustrate how self-driving can make commutes safe, and be usable for a versatile group of people. Moreover, people like me majoring in technical field do not take subjects like English seriously, as they won’t directly get involved in the fields of English in the future. But, what I have learnt from this talk is that, English as a subject if taken seriously can change the …show more content…
The word patience can be linked to the fact that Chris and his group have long been working since 2008 to successfully release a self-driving car, but yet haven’t released the final versions of it. Similarly, I am highly inspired by the idea of one article, “When Waiting is Weightless: The Virtue of Patience”, where author, Joseph H. Kupfer uses different concepts to talk about the importance of being patient. The line, “Patience is an instrumental virtue. It is instrumental in two respects: with regard to particular ends and with regard to other virtues. As we have seen, patience enables us to achieve our ends, or to achieve them better than would otherwise be the case,” clearly motivates everyone to be aware of the prospective benefits of our current patience and hard work. For instance: A number of college dropouts happen in the freshman year. Most of the drop outs have a mindset that college degree isn’t necessary for the future, so they are not patient enough to think ahead of time and visualize the opportunities after graduating from college. Although, I was never this intolerant, but I also wasn’t very optimistic about my success in future either. However, after listening to this talk, I have a feeling that raw ideas take a long time to convert into a beneficial product. This talk also helped me realize the power of unity in a group. Chris, in the talk constantly uses the word “team” to relate to his partners
“Oh beware my lord of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on - William Shakespeare. Shakespeare proposes that jealousy is the one thing that destroys the person’s life on which it feeds. In Morley Callaghan’s “Watching and Waiting” the protagonist, Mr.Hillard, is a skeptical young man who is jealous of the men his wife spends time with, and so tends to spy on her. Eventually, his jealousy reaches such an extent that he sneakingly enters his own house, and his wife mistaking him for a stranger kills him. Thus showing how “jealousy mock[s] the meat on which it feeds” as in this case jealousy symbolically mocked Mr.Hillard’s life. Morley Callaghan’s “Watching and Waiting”
Simon emphases the significance of knowing, and using proper English, as well as keeping it alive. He proposes ways to sharpen the brain, which will result in a greater sense of discipline and memory. Simon also notes that everything we do is done with words, therefore, English is viewed as an essential to everyday life. The accurate use of rhetorical devices in this article are just one of many examples on how good English can help a person on a day to day basis. Despite Simon’s knowledge of proper English, the remainder of Americans must train themselves so that they may also achieve correct usage of the English
Patience to me is having the strength to wait out something. Most of the time it is some sort of hardship or set back. Take my life for example. I have not always been very good at football. When I first started out in sports I pretty much only played soccer. I didn’t really know what football was even though my dad was a huge fan. I stuck with soccer until I was about seven or eight years old. That is when my family moved to Florida. Because of that move I began to experience new things. The fields where I played soccer also had youth football going. I began to take interest so my mom signed me up for flag football. During my first year I was still learning the ground rules so I wasn’t exactly a breakout star. But in time I started to perfect my craft. So when tackle football rolled around, and I was old enough to play, the coaches started to take notice.
Throughout our everyday lives whether we think about it or not. Computers and technology are and have been an integral part of our lives. Computers and technology assist us with so much, such as the way we drive and the way we learn. We no longer have to deal with the hassle of driving stick and we no longer have to be in a physical classroom with the advent of online education. In Clive Thompsons’ essay “Smarter than you think how technology is changing our minds for the better,” he discusses how the ever changing capacity of technology improves the mental cognition of human beings.
One of the hottest topics that modern science has been focusing on for a long time is the field of artificial intelligence, the study of intelligence in machines or, according to Minsky, “the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men”.(qtd in Copeland 1). Artificial Intelligence has a lot of applications and is used in many areas. “We often don’t notice it but AI is all around us. It is present in computer games, in the cruise control in our cars and the servers that route our email.” (BBC 1). Different goals have been set for the science of Artificial Intelligence, but according to Whitby the most mentioned idea about the goal of AI is provided by the Turing Test. This test is also called the imitation game, since it is basically a game in which a computer imitates a conversating human. In an analysis of the Turing Test I will focus on its features, its historical background and the evaluation of its validity and importance.
“The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.” (Arthur Keith)
Today’s world is full of robots that vacuum the floor and cars that talk to their drivers. People can ask their phones to send a text or play a song and a cheerful voice will oblige. Machines are taking over more and more tasks that are traditionally left to people, such as cleaning, navigating, and even scheduling meetings. In a world where technology is becoming increasingly human, questions arise about whether machines will eventually replace humankind altogether. In Ray Bradbury’s short stories, “The Veldt” and “August 2026,” he presents themes that technology will not only further replace the jobs of humans, but it will also outlast humankind as a whole. Although this is a plausible future, computers just cannot do certain human jobs.
...pparent reason is not the patience that one should accept, but one should be patient for certain things like a Master's Degree or a higher position at work. Like the earlier example of one who where to obtain wealth through illegal activities. This person did not have patience to make an honest living. Patience will lead to making good honest decisions that in turn reward in a way that will certainly be most satisfying.
It’s fairly easy for me to go charging into something without thinking about my actions or the consequences. I have found that it is much more difficult to stop, consider the options and find all of the facts. Patience’s is not an easy thing to put into practice, it is something that takes time. Over time I grew more patient and more understanding of situations and people, which has helped me in both my job and in my everyday
Before a group can achieve the synergistic performance Jimenez is looking for it must meet three preconditions. First, team members have to approach the task at hand with the motivation to work cross-functionally and the confidence that they can produce effective solutions. In Wichita, much of the motivation came from the evident crisis in performance. Everyone in the plant knew that it was underperforming and there is no stronger motivation for action than a survival crisis.
People in the type A group tend to be more aggressive in pursuing their goals, noticeably impatient, and very time urgent. They always feel the need to double up their effort and speed to achieve their goals. On the other hand, is the type B personalities who are very cautious, patient, and good at working on long term goals even if the results looks bleak at the first instance. These two different traits react to stressful work demands differently. While Type As tend to be very good at meeting deadlines, they do not react well when they feel being slowed by other team members. In other words, generally they do not make good team players. The Type B might be a slower and takes so much times to achieve certain goals but he/she can fit very well with others and tends to make them better by the virtue of his/her patience. Using the person-job fit model, individuals with no patience for failure or people dragging them can be put in jobs with less or no human interface. Work related stress can be best handled by an individual with patience and decorum (p. 471). The Stress Management Framework used by most organizations aims the secondary intervention on the individual and how he/she reacts to the situation. Not all stressors or strains can be eliminated especially if the nature of the work demands it. Instead, employers redirect efforts to make the individual employees strong enough to deal with it
For example, the self-driving car fleet from Uber is already under active development and testing in Pittsburg. Competitiveness with Google Translate and Apple Siri show promise with language learning. With improvements in computer vision and legged locomotion, robots for unstructured environments become practical; these might include agricultural and service settings and helping humans (especially the elderly and infirm) with domestic chores. Finally, as machines improve their grasp of language, search engines and "personal assistants" on mobile phones will change from indexing web pages to understanding web pages, leading to qualitative improvements in their ability to answer questions, synthesize new information, offer advice, and connect the dots. AI may also have a substantial impact on areas of science, such as systems biology, where the complexity and volume of information challenges human abilities. (Russell,
Shyam Sankar, named by CNN as one of the world’s top ten leading speakers, says the key to AI evolvement is the improvement of human-computer symbiosis. Sankar believes humans should be more heavily relied upon in AI and technological evolvement. Sankar’s theory is just one of the many that will encompass the future innovations of AI. The next phase and future of AI is that scientists now want to utilize both human and machine strengths to create a super intelligent thing. From what history has taught us, the unimaginable is possible with determination. Just over fifty years ago, AI was implemented through robots completing a series of demands. Then it progressed to the point that AI can be integrated into society, seen through interactive interfaces like Google Maps or the Siri App. Today, humans have taught machines to effectively take on human jobs, and tasks that have created a more efficient world. The future of AI is up to the creativity and innovation of current society’s scientists, leaders, thinkers, professors, students and
With the development of technology in the world, people are faced with many things they never saw and knew before. In this modern life, technology has affected a lot of people’s lives in many levels. Robots are considered as important products of technology. Robots were introduced by a writer, Karel Čapek, from the Czech word, robota, meaning “forced labor” or “serf”. Čapek used this word in his play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) which opened in Prague in January, 1921, a play in which an Englishman named Rossum mass-produced automata. The automata, robots, are meant to do the world’s work and to make a better life for humans; but in the end they rebel, wipe out humanity, and start a new race of intelligent life for the robots themselves (Asimov, 1984). Robot does not have a specific definition itself, every dictionary has a slightly different definition. “Deciding if a machine is or is not a robot is like trying to decide if a certain shade of greenish blue is truly blue or not blue,” said Carlo Bertocchini, the owner of RobotBooks.com. “Some people will call it blue while others will vote not blue,” (Branwyn, 2004). This essay will limit the meaning of robot as what defined in the Merriam Webster Dictionary (2004), robot is a machine that looks and acts like a human being, an efficient but insensitive person, a device that automatically performs especially repetitive tasks, and something guided by automatic controls. As the technology grows more modern each day, scientists and programmers are creating and improving the function of robots. Nevertheless, many people are still debating should robots be developed more and should robots be used in everyday life. I disagree that the further development of robots should be remain...
For example, going to school. Some challenges come from trying to understand a difficult subject and dealing with the judgment from others at school. This requires patience because tutoring takes the majority of everyone’s time and can sometimes cause frustration. Having patience and tolerance gives the mindset of working hard and achieving the goal desired. Patience also helps with judgment from others because that judgment can cause discouragement. Having patience will give the mindset of realizing that in the end, all the events and situations happening at the moment, will not matter in the future. In the end, patience will help in giving encouragement and hope that will help overcome the judgment of others. Waiting for something also requires patience and tolerance. In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford was trapped on a tropical island and was forced to stay with his life on the line. He managed to come across a man named General Zaroff. General Zaroff was a hunting addict and he loved to hunt humans. Rainsford wanted to get off the island but he had to be patient. Instead of almost getting killed by General Zaroff, he decided to be patient and tolerate or play along with General Zaroff’s little game. This was rewarding for him because Rainsford won the game with flying colors and was able to live. Rainsford was able to leave the island and go back to his normal life by being patient. Having patience was rewarding and he was able to tolerate the time, and the situation, in order for him to escape to his