scholarly journals I Dream of Siri: Magic and Female Voice Assistants

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Toncic
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Technical Aspect ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Female Voice ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Structural Comparison ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Recent Advances

Recent advances in science and engineering have facilitated the development of artificial intelligence voice assistants. While this is true from a technical aspect, smart speakers and voice assistants did not develop in isolation from the rest of human society. The devices may be new, but the practices and patterns in their development and use are not. Using Lévi-Strauss’s structural anthropology, I map homologous practices of smart speaker interaction onto historical conceptions of supernatural magic use. This structural comparison suggests that practices and patterns that were essential to magic use have re-emerged in smart speaker utilization in similar forms. Some of these practices are noteworthy for their homology alone. However, other homologous behaviors revive patterns of inequity that, in Western magical traditions, had privileged the traditionally educated man. The goal of this paper is to elucidate the ghost in the machine: the prejudiced social practices of supernatural magic that were asserted to be eradicated yet which are now, nevertheless, newly instantiated within our most cutting-edge devices.

Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Thermal Science and Engineering

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwang-Tzu Yang
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Real World ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
Critical Problems

The use of artificial intelligence methodologies in a variety of real-world applications has been around for some time. However, the application of such methodologies to thermal science and engineering is relatively new, but is receiving ever-increasing attention in the published literature since the mid 1990s. Such attention is due essentially to special requirements and needs of the field of thermal science and Engineering (TSE) in terms of its increasing complexity and the recognition that it is not feasible to approach many critical problems in this field by the use of traditional analysis. The purpose of the present brief review is to point out the recent advances in the artificial intelligence (AI) field and the successes of such methodologies to the current problems in thermal science and engineering. Some shortfalls and prospect for future applications will also be indicated.

scholarly journals Between Life and Non-Life: Sachiko Kodama’s Black and Bridget Riley’s Pink

2019 ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Yukiko Kato
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Contemporary World

The contemporary world is so technological that humans are located on the verge of life and non-life. Computers, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and androids permeate human society, and people are even fascinated by such menaces of the non-life. This paper clarifies why contemporary society loves the idea of the rise of artificial beings by analyzing the use of artificial colors – black and pink – by the cutting-edge female artists Sachiko Kodama and Bridget Riley.Media artist Kodama uses black liquid while the abstract artist Riley uses pink pigments as key materials. According to Asao Komachiya, black is the color of the blind; it appears on the verge of being and non-being. Meanwhile, Barbara Nemitz identifies pink as an artificial color that does not exist in the spectrum of sunlight. Both colors are highly evaluated in technological and consumer society and widely used on many goods. Kodama’s and Riley’s high reputation signifies that contemporary society likes the precarious artificial beings between life and non-life. Moreover, their original and unique works have realized the field of liberty as their extensive use of artificial colors black and pink indicates ultra-human.Kodama’s and Riley’s gender is also key. As Dora Haraway suggests in “Cyborg Manifesto” (1991), contemporary women, historically dealt with as peripheral existences, survive as ultra-human beings rather than the ancient goddesses. By considering significant female artists such as Kodama and Riley, we can understand not only the contemporary aesthetics of visual arts, but also the concurrent yearning of contemporary society for liberty, ultra-humanity, and non-life. Article received: April 17, 2019; Article accepted: June 23, 2019; Published online: September 15, 2019: Review articleHow to cite this article: Kato, Yukiko. "Between Life and Non-Life: Sachiko Kodama’s Black and Bridget Riley’s Pink." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 19 (2019): 109-115. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i19.311

A Survey of Recent Advances in Edge-Computing-Powered Artificial Intelligence of Things

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Zhuoqing Chang ◽  
Shubo Liu ◽  
Xingxing Xiong ◽  
Zhaohui Cai ◽  
Guoqing Tu
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Recent Advances

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Polymer-Inorganic Mixed Matrix Membranes for CO2 Separation

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 2539
Author(s):  
Sipei Li ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Dana A. Wong ◽  
John Yang
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Sieves ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Metal Oxide Nanoparticles ◽  
Mixed Matrix Membranes ◽  
Co2 Separation ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Mixed Matrix ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Matrix Membranes

Since the second industrial revolution, the use of fossil fuels has been powering the advance of human society. However, the surge in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions has raised unsettling concerns about global warming and its consequences. Membrane separation technologies have emerged as one of the major carbon reduction approaches because they are less energy-intensive and more environmentally friendly compared to other separation techniques. Compared to pure polymeric membranes, mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) that encompass both a polymeric matrix and molecular sieving fillers have received tremendous attention, as they have the potential to combine the advantages of both polymers and molecular sieves, while cancelling out each other’s drawbacks. In this review, we will discuss recent advances in the development of MMMs for CO2 separation. We will discuss general mechanisms of CO2 separation in an MMM, and then compare the performances of MMMs that are based on zeolite, MOF, metal oxide nanoparticles and nanocarbons, with an emphasis on the materials’ preparation methods and their chemistries. As the field is advancing fast, we will particularly focus on examples from the last 5 years, in order to provide the most up-to-date overview in this area.

scholarly journals Peacekeeping Conditions for an Artificial Intelligence Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Yamakawa
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Common Value ◽  
Goal Management ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Advanced System ◽  
Local Value

In a human society with emergent technology, the destructive actions of some pose a danger to the survival of all of humankind, increasing the need to maintain peace by overcoming universal conflicts. However, human society has not yet achieved complete global peacekeeping. Fortunately, a new possibility for peacekeeping among human societies using the appropriate interventions of an advanced system will be available in the near future. To achieve this goal, an artificial intelligence (AI) system must operate continuously and stably (condition 1) and have an intervention method for maintaining peace among human societies based on a common value (condition 2). However, as a premise, it is necessary to have a minimum common value upon which all of human society can agree (condition 3). In this study, an AI system to achieve condition 1 was investigated. This system was designed as a group of distributed intelligent agents (IAs) to ensure robust and rapid operation. Even if common goals are shared among all IAs, each autonomous IA acts on each local value to adapt quickly to each environment that it faces. Thus, conflicts between IAs are inevitable, and this situation sometimes interferes with the achievement of commonly shared goals. Even so, they can maintain peace within their own societies if all the dispersed IAs think that all other IAs aim for socially acceptable goals. However, communication channel problems, comprehension problems, and computational complexity problems are barriers to realization. This problem can be overcome by introducing an appropriate goal-management system in the case of computer-based IAs. Then, an IA society could achieve its goals peacefully, efficiently, and consistently. Therefore, condition 1 will be achievable. In contrast, humans are restricted by their biological nature and tend to interact with others similar to themselves, so the eradication of conflicts is more difficult.

scholarly journals Foreword to the special issue on recent advances on pattern recognition and artificial intelligence

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huawen Liu ◽  
Jianping Yin ◽  
Xudong Luo ◽  
Shichao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Recent Advances

scholarly journals A Survey of Robots in Healthcare

Technologies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kyrarini ◽  
Fotios Lygerakis ◽  
Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan ◽  
Christos Sevastopoulos ◽  
Harish Ram Nambiappan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Robotic Systems ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Robotic Technology ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Survey Paper ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Art Research

In recent years, with the current advancements in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots have the potential to support the field of healthcare. Robotic systems are often introduced in the care of the elderly, children, and persons with disabilities, in hospitals, in rehabilitation and walking assistance, and other healthcare situations. In this survey paper, the recent advances in robotic technology applied in the healthcare domain are discussed. The paper provides detailed information about state-of-the-art research in care, hospital, assistive, rehabilitation, and walking assisting robots. The paper also discusses the open challenges healthcare robots face to be integrated into our society.

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