Paper 2 practice.

Friends,

below is an article which your paper 2 practice will be based on. Please regard the article, review your syllabus strands, and look at your command terms for tomorrow’s questions!

 

Topic: Health

Patients who have diabetes (diabetics) must measure their blood sugar (blood glucose) a number of

times a day to ensure that it stays within safe levels. If their blood glucose level is too high, they may

become unconscious and fall into a coma. Diabetics are expected to record their results daily so that

they can monitor their own blood glucose levels. These results are accessible to patients and also

reviewed by their doctors at the local hospital on a monthly basis.

Diabetics have been involved in tests with new IT technologies that experts hope will lead to an

increase in the use of online health records.

Previously a diabetic would be required to record blood glucose levels in a notebook. Now a blood

glucose meter can be used to measure levels of blood glucose and this information can be uploaded

to a computer.

This development has taken place in partnership with the company LivingWithDiabetes which has

developed a website that makes it possible for patients to upload their blood glucose levels so that

medical staff can view this information as shown in the chart below. (Chart unavailable).

The process works as follows:

1. Blood is taken and glucose levels are measured by the meter.

2. The results are uploaded and stored on the patient’s computer.

3. Results are sent to the LivingWithDiabetes website.

4. Results are viewed by medical staff.

Doctors believe that this new online blood glucose recording system will be significantly better

than the previous manual system because patients play a key role in managing their own condition.

Previously doctors relied on patients providing information about their blood glucose levels to

the medical staff and the information would then be passed on to the doctors. Now doctors can

immediately access this information online.

This online blood glucose recording system would only require one nurse to manage

200 diabetic patients. It would allow nurses to spend more time with patients when they are first

diagnosed, teaching them how to manage their condition.

Doctors believe this is an ideal solution for themselves, other medical staff and diabetic patients.

Artificial Intelligence Questions.

Issues with Artificial Intelligence

• Who takes responsibility for the performance of an expert system—knowledge engineer, informant, programmer (software engineer), company that sold it, the buyer / consumer?

Should we stop a company from unplugging an expert system?

• What is the value of the development of AI as a field? For example, is it an appropriate place to put economic resources?

Raise a glass to the woderful and underappreciated AI
It’s Alive, the benefits of AI

• What are ethical issues associated with various applications of AI, for example, replacement of human workers, handing decision-making tasks to a computer?

Robotic Nation
When do you allow computers to make decisions for you?
Can computers make a life-or-death medical decision?

• What is the social impact of the use of “smart” machines on everyday life?

We have the technology
Smart Machines – what is the worst thing that could happen?

• What are the ethical issues related to military applications of AI, for example, smart weapons, reconnaissance, decision making?

Who do you trust more G.I. Joe or A.I. Joe?
The Unmanned Army

• What are the implications of creative production by computers using AI, for example, Aaron, an expert system, creates visual art?

“AARON exists; it generates objects that hold their own more than adequately, in human terms, in any gathering of similar, but human-produced, objects, and it does so with a stylistic consistency that reveals an identity as clearly as any human artist’s does. It does these things, moreover, without my own intervention. I do not believe that AARON constitutes an existence proof of the power of machines to think, or to be creative, or to be self-aware, to display any of those attributes coined specifically to explain something about ourselves. It constitutes an existence proof of the power of machines to do some of the things we had assumed required thought, and which we still suppose would require thought, and creativity, and self-awareness, of a human being.
If what AARON is making is not art, what is it exactly, and in what ways, other than its origin, does it differ from the “real thing?” If it is not thinking, what exactly is it doing?” Harold Cohen (1995)

Source: The Further Exploits of AARON, Painter

A.I.

Friends,

today we will watch the beginning of A.I. to go along with Chapter 15 of the text. Emotional robotics issues!! Also, the majority of you have not handed in your ITGS triangle assignment(s). Please do. Thanking you!

 

 

December 7, 2011

Friends,

after we have discussed the articles from Monday, I would like you to perform the same exercise on 2 articles that you find that deal with Network Security. Hand this in by commenting on the blog, with links to your articles. Please have this done for Friday. Thanking you!

December 5, 2011

Friends,

today I would like you to refresh your memories regarding the ITGS Triangle Template 2012. Specifically, use the triangle approach on the second page to answer questions on the 2 linked articles below. Second order of business: I need clients from many of you. If you do not have a client for your project, GET ONE!

Article 1

Article 2