Rule number 11: I skipped rule number 3... TIM BERNERS-LEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

Class Presentation

Rule number 10: Cyber security is huge field that did not exist about a decade ago. One of the first-class presentations was about cybercrimes. They covered things such as internet scammers, illegal distribution of child pornography, hackers, and internet stalking extensively. But what they didn’t cover, at least not very thoroughly, is the growing career field for people who combat the people, specifically internet hackers. It is becoming such a large field that there are more jobs available in this field then there are people graduating to take these jobs. So, if you graduate with the right requirements, then you are basically guaranteed a high paying job. Oh, did I not mention they’re high paying? Yeah, a starting salary for this field is within the range of $100,000 to $125,000. To put that in perspective most regular computer scientists will start in the $80,000 to $100,000 range which is already good money. Corporations need people to help defend their important data and will do a lot in order to keep these people. Not to mention the work is really interesting. Your whole job is out hacking hackers, or in some cases hacking big corporations… legally!! This specific job is called white hat hackers. There job is to, with a corporation’s permission, attempt to hack their systems and steal valuable information. They then uniform the company of the vulnerabilities in their system for a reward. I know that a lot of people, like myself, sometimes day dream about hacking into a large corporation and this career path will let you do just that, and make a lot of while doing it.

AI

Rule number 9: AI does not exist… right now. AI is all that anybody talks about, with good reason too. The introduction of true AI technology will potentially have large negative impacts. Some people believe that this technology has already come out. They look at things like Alexa and say, “look it listens to you and can respond to request accurately, Isn’t that scary??” No, because this is not true human intelligence. This is simply a series of complex programs intended to mimic human intelligence. But in reality the programs behind Alexa can be boiled down to simple if else statements. I don’t believe that the AI in Alexa or any other form of AI is actually artificial intelligence. In order to be an artificial intelligence in my opinion, a program has to decide what it wants to do. Right now, no matter how complex the thinking of an AI is, it still has one task that it was told to accomplish by a human. Once a program is run and the AI chooses what it wants to do (not out of a pre-selected group of acceptable actions like move a random number of spaces in a random number direction), them AI will officially be here. Of course, once this does happen it might spell the downfall of humanity because it will be able to learn faster then any of us could control it.   Keep in mind I’m not downplaying the impact of the “AI” on the market. These machines are fantastic accomplishments in the field of technology and I believe that more credit should be given to the programmers who created them, not the “intelligence” held inside them.

Startup.com

Rule number 8: Gov Works was destined to fail. The Documentary “Startup.com” is a perfect representation of the craziness that took place during the dot com bomb. It tells the story of the rise and fall of gov works, a startup company founded by Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, and Tom Herman. The documentary does a great job highlighting how it destined to fail from the beginning, a fact that is blatantly clear to the audience, but not to Kaleil, tom, or anybody else involved in this business.In-fighting and inconsistency plagued this business from the very beginning. The two founders are always butting heads and disagreeing with each other, even during important investor meetings.  I mean seriously, the documentary opens on Kaleil trying to decide what the company’s name is?!?! Like they don’t even know what to call themselves and we’re supposed to believe that they are ready to take accept funding from large investors? Yeah right. Furthermore, there idea has some crucial flaws, such as one brought up by an investor. The flaw in question is that working with the government in order to make a profit is very hard and has the potential to not work out. How exactly do they make a decent profit? What is going to convince government to utilize these features to pay parking tickets, either way they will be getting paid and this will just cost the government. Even if they did want to make this happen, what’s stopping them from investing in making it themselves, that way they wouldn’t have to pay someone else to do it. The idea of having government interactions be done online is a good, but not as a business.