Assignment 1: Information Literacy Alexis Brian Edminster

1. Topic :(Emerging technology) Artificial Intelligence

Morelle, Rebecca. "Machine Learns to Play Video Games." BBC News.
2. Researchers from googles DeepMind project have created a new type of
artificial intelligence. The only information that was given to the program
were raw pixels on a screen and the idea it had to get a high score,
everything else including how to even play had to be figured out by the
program. Out of 49 games given to the program, 29 of them it was
comparable or better than human game testers. In a few it far exceeded
professional players.
3. Additional internet articles on the same topic.
Tucker, Patrick. "The Military Wants to Teach Robots Right From Wrong." The
Atlantic.
Allen, Kate. "Computer Beats Atari in Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough."
Thestar.com
The two search engines I used were dogpile.com and duckduckgo.com,
both are meta searchers so the same style of info came up but I feel
the returned quires seemed better on duckduckgo.com more variance
in what turned up in the search results and defiantly less adds.
4. TRAAP source on The Military Wants to Teach Robots Right From
Wrong
Time: May 14th,2014 it does not appear to have been updated.
Relevance : it does have to do with the topic of A.I. and answers some
questions on thoughts concerning this expanding field.
Authority: PATRICK TUCKER, Patrick Tucker is the technology editor of
Defense One and the author of the book, The Naked Future: What
Happens In a World That Anticipates Your Every Move. Yes he appears
to be a good authority in matters of coming technology, especially in
the ideas that information can be sorted faster and more efficiently
though computers than humans can. And seeing the future of
technology and where it might lead us.
Accurate: the links to citations in the article are not only active but
correct upon digging deeper.
Purpose: the articles purpose is to inform about a topic that is getting
debate, educate you as to the major sides and their opinions and
inform about upcoming discussions in the form of the U.N. meeting
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that occurred so that if you looking into it after it has been had you will
understand the starting standings of both viewpoints. I found little to
no opinion just what each side thinkswith citations and facts about the
topic that can and are be backed up.

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5. Two scholarly sources relating to the topic.
Swan, Noelle. "Meet Baxter, Your New Robotic Co-Worker." Christian
Science Monitor.
Carroll, Chris, and Max Aguilera-Hellweg. "Us. And Them." National
Geographic.
The key words I used to search this topic were A.I. and
Artificial Intelligence. The databases I used was the CCBC
online library SIRS Researcher I used this source due to the
fact that it gave me the type of issues behind the simple issue I
was looking for, that being not only how far are we from genuine
A.I. but how will we as a species look upon the race.
6. Comparing the five articles listed above.
"Machine Learns to Play Video Games."
Very easy to find quite current found on the BBC tech page one
of the first topics so very easy to find
The timeliness is very recent only being 1 day old so very
recent.
The Author of the piece has written a number of different tech
articles and works directly for BBC which I consider fairly trust
worthy.
"The Military Wants to Teach Robots Right From Wrong."
One of the first articles that came up with DuckDuckGo.com
found it fairly easy to find.
The article is from around one year ago and I believe the general
points of view given from both sides seem to be fairly consistent
with concerns of today.
The author writes upon technology related articles, but the
sourcing is very good and has written a book looking at the
future of technology in the world.

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"Computer Beats Atari in Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough.

Found on Dogpile.com was fairly easy to find. Found dogpile had
more ads than I like to deal with.
The Article is from one day ago so it is also very current and
while the topic is the same as the first article this one focuses on
the programming and what devopments were stronger there
opposed to just the overview of what happened.
The author writes tech articles for the Toronto star, the topic
seems much more knowledge full not only of the topic but of the
different kinds of programming behind and the citation is well
done so I know she has the backup required to be truthful.
"Meet Baxter, Your New Robotic Co-Worker."
Found on the sirs archive, was easy to find.
September 27th 2014 so only a few months old.
The author has a Harvard degree and writes about Science
Education as well as topics of the advancement of science which
fall into the realm of having a view upon the topic.
"Us. And Them."
Found on the sirs archive, was easy to find. Originally from
national geographic
August 2011 within a few years I believe is still relevant.
Had a very hard time finding credentials beyond being a
member of national geographic staff. Unfortunately his bio page
on the NG site has yet to be filled out.

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7. Cite all five sources, and explain which was used and why.
Citations: I used MLA format due to the fact that AI will really be a
humanities issue than one of hard science, we care more about how we will
perceive this new race not how they work in the end.
Works Cited
Allen, Kate. "Computer Beats Atari in Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough."
Thestar.com. Toronto Star, 25 Feb. 2015. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.
<http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/02/25/computer-beats-atari-in-artificialintelligence-breakthrough.html>.
Carroll, Chris, and Max Aguilera-Hellweg. "Us. And Them." National Geographic. Aug.
2011: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.
Morelle, Rebecca. "Machine Learns to Play Video Games." BBC News. BBC News, 25
Feb. 2015. Web. 26 Feb. 2015. <http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment31623427>.
Swan, Noelle. "Meet Baxter, Your New Robotic Co-Worker." Christian Science Monitor.
27 Sep. 2014: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.
Tucker, Patrick. "The Military Wants to Teach Robots Right From Wrong." The Atlantic.
Atlantic Media Company, 14 May 2014. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.
<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-military-wants-toteach-robots-right-from-wrong/370855/>.