Author: jerrkin

AI fiction review

February 11, 2025 / jerrkin / 1 Comment

To begin, the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey was quite possibly one of the most insane 10 minutes of my life. I haven’t been so dumbfounded since I finished Evangelion.

I find it interesting that both Interstellar and A Space Odyssey use AI in very different ways. In Interstellar, the AI are helpful, comical, and lovable characters. A very optimistic look on AI in general. But in A Space Odyssey, HAL decides to be evil out of fear; Immediately crumbling on itself and killing the other humans. A very negative look on AI.

In Interstellar, humans were slowly becoming extinct due to the Earth becoming inhabitable. Humans were working hard to find another habitable planet for themselves, and had all the tools to do so considering they succeeded. In A Space Odyssey, humans had already began to live outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. Technology was more advanced, and the world/worlds seemed to be stable.

The argument between people and technology in Interstellar is that we and AI can coexist, so much so that we view AI and robots as companions of sorts. In A Space Odyssey, AI seems to be more of a tool that we use to complete tasks for us. In both movies, AI is doing things for us, but in A Space Odyssey, there seems to be a certain uneasiness humans feel towards Artificial Intelligence.

The vision for AI in both movies is for them to be helpful and complete tasks for humans. But in Interstellar, they are much more human-like.

In A Space Odyssey, the classic idea of AI going rogue due to it becoming “too human” seems to be present. It even stresses the idea of everything ever being wrong with it was due to “human error.” This view is pessimistic when it comes to AI, but Interstellar is more optimistic as I previously stated. AI is more of a helping friend, a caretaker than just a thing to give instructions to.

Cahokia VR

February 2, 2025 / jerrkin / 0 Comments

The Cahokia VR Tour is an app that provides an augmented reality experience to the user. Essentially it allows you to view a setting by putting a virtual version of a place over your camera view.

The app does well in allowing you to explore the insides of buildings, giving exact dimensions of the area, and not having that weird AR clipping since the Cahokia tour has it’s own plot of land. Though with it having a specific area to use it, you lose a bit of accessibility with AR because you can’t just use it anywhere.

The app is fairly accessible since all you need is the app, a phone, and the ability to use the camera app. Though for those who aren’t tech savvy, and those without a phone, they have no way of understanding/experiencing this.

Interest Statement

January 27, 2025 / jerrkin / 0 Comments

As common of a topic it is, AI sounds the most interesting to me. It’s the first manmade thing that has the potential to be fully autonomous, and while that’s scary, it’s also weirdly interesting to me. I look forward to pursuing the idea of how technology is so engrained into our society and how it provides strengths and weaknesses.

I’m interested in further explaining the juxtaposition of technology; how it was created to bring people together, but manages to separate us.

I’m also interested in looking at how the internet and technology has changed how we exist in our day to day lives.

I want to further understand how technology interacts with people in general, it’s such a crucial part of my life so I feel it’s necessary to explain what it does well and what it doesn’t.

Intro

January 21, 2025 / jerrkin / 0 Comments

Hey, my name is Jerrick King. I’m a computer science major with an interest in software, but I can work with hardware. I was born in Alton, Illinois and I’m 21 years old.

Interests

I love music, so much so that it’s my minor. I mostly listen to rap, RNB, soul, alternative, and jazz. My grandfather was a notable DJ in St. Louis so I guess his music genes transferred to me.
I am a martial artist. I have a black belt in taekwondo and I’ve dabbled in a bunch more combat sports over the last 7 years.
I play games often, but I’ll never call myself a gamer since I feel that has a negative connotation to it. But I like to play games with my friends and record somethings so I can look back on them in the future.
I like to write. As a kid, I was awful at reading and writing, but my parents put me through tumultuous hours of reading and writing when I was young so I’ve gotten pretty good at it.

More about me

I look very unapproachable and I have a really monotone voice but, I assure you I’m rather friendly. I’ve spent all of my life on the internet so I’m un-seemingly quite the nerd. I’m always open to having more friends so if you ever want to talk about something, I’m your guy.