Societat, Família i Escola: Tecnologies - Núria

Dear reader, We have arrived to the end of this subject's classes, and with that, to the final chapter of this blog. In the past few moths, time has been running out of my hands, and, in a blink of an eye, I am about to finish my first year of collage. I am well aware that it has been only five entries, however, you should know that I have put a lot of effort in each one of the entrances, trying to make the message as understandable as possible. Returning to the main point, I wanted this last entry to talk about Scratch, a visual programming language that we used in one of our last projects. In it, we had to do a Scratch project using a character created with an AI and a painting of the MNAC, the National Art Museum of Catalonia ( Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya ). When I first heard about this project, I was, not only delighted, but also nervous. The reason behind these emotions is that when I was younger, I used to work with Scratch in my robotics classes, and if I’m being hone

Dear reader,  I have been wanting to talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) for a while now, but I have never found the right moment to do so, at least, not until now. That’s why, while we are arriving to the end of this subject, I would like to take a moment and share my humble opinion on this thought-provoking topic, that seems to be, nowadays, in everybody’s mind. In the past few decades, technology has developed exponentially in many unimaginable way. Its growth has effected, directly or indirectly, almost every aspect of our current society, transforming not only the way we communicate with each other, but also how we see the world that surround us. As always, where big change goes, controversy comes with it, and this situation hasn’t been the exception. First was the Facebook privacy problems back in 2010, then the rise of death causes by selfies in 2016, and now is Artificial Intelligence’s turn. Although the term of AI has been in use for many years, back then, it was commonly