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Artificial Intelligence Could Probably Write This Essay Better Than Me, Claire Martino Apr 2024

Artificial Intelligence Could Probably Write This Essay Better Than Me, Claire Martino

Augustana Center for the Study of Ethics Essay Contest

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Ai Art: Artists’ Best Friend Or Mortal Enemy?, Ethan Gabrys Jun 2023

Ai Art: Artists’ Best Friend Or Mortal Enemy?, Ethan Gabrys

Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research

This paper analyzes the impacts and implications of generative AI software on art and examines the ethics of using such tools. Through the argument that careless use of these tools presents a danger to the art world as they risk devaluing human expression, Gabrys states that “as what it means to be human changes with each generation, new artists express sentiment through their art. Art has the ability to tell us about the human experience.” He concludes that the use of AI tools takes the skill and sentiment of human artists out of the equation, begging the question: if the …


Augustana Invitational Robotics Challenge 2018, Forrest Stonedahl Jun 2018

Augustana Invitational Robotics Challenge 2018, Forrest Stonedahl

Celebration of Learning

We will be hosting the 3rd Annual Augustana Invitational Robotics Challenge. This event will involve student teams from Augustana and potentially several other schools in the region bringing forth the robots that they have designed, built, and programmed, to compete against one another. This year's challenge task involves the careful relocation of soda pop cans.


Investigating Trust And Trust Recovery In Human-Robot Interactions, Abigail L. Thomson May 2017

Investigating Trust And Trust Recovery In Human-Robot Interactions, Abigail L. Thomson

Celebration of Learning

As artificial intelligence and robotics continue to advance and be used in increasingly different functions and situations, it is important to look at how these new technologies will be used. An important factor in how a new resource will be used is how much it is trusted. This experiment was conducted to examine people’s trust in a robotic assistant when completing a task, how mistakes affect this trust, and if the levels of trust exhibited with a robot assistant were significantly different than if the assistant were human. The task was to watch a computer simulation of the three-cup monte …