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#import "@preview/grape-suite:1.0.0": exercise
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#import exercise: project
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#set text(lang: "en")
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#show: project.with(
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title: [Dystopia: Homo Deus],
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seminar: [English Q2],
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show-outline: true,
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author: "Erik Grobecker",
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date: datetime(day: 9, month: 1, year: 2025),
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)
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#show "->": sym.arrow
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#show "=>": sym.arrow.double
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// we'll watch oppenheimer on the 30.01.2025
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// and we have to bring some money to watch (like 4,50€)
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// we have to bring the money the week before
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= Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus
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== p. 51
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=== keywords of the passage
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- vision of the future
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- alteration of humans through mechanical and biological engineering -> homo deus -> only for the elite
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- replacement of human workforce through maschines etc.
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- escapism in form of VR or drugs for the remainder of the once needed human workforce
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- visions of the past and present
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- disease, famine, war < suicide, old age, eating too much\
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as a cause of human deaths
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== p. 52-53
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=== Questions summarizing the passage
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- Is art uniquely human? And are maschines unable to create "soulful" arts?
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- Are we (humans) able to differentiate between what was made by us (as a race) and whatnot?
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- Should algorithms/AI be considered legal entities? And what would happen if it were the case?
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// Definitly doesn't remind me of cyberpunk...
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2025-01-10 13:15:02 +01:00
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#pagebreak()
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2025-01-10 09:45:35 +01:00
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=== "Actual" summary
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- algorithms in the economy
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- legal entities
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- owned by people, corporations or themselves?
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- algorithms in arts
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- unable to write "soulful" music?
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- worse off than human artists
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- what can't algorithms do?
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The extract of the non-fictional book "Homo Deus",
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which is written by Yuval Noah Harari,
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and addresses the question how we as humans should percieve algorithms //or AI (not mentioned but relevant in recent years)
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and indirectly asks the reader how these should be handled,
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meaning that he explains how algorithms may act and what they could achieve.
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Harari mentions at first, how algorithms would be able to take over human jobs,
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which might lead to them owning the world,
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while we their creators serve them.\
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He indulges in this thought by providing us with the information that
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human workers are able unionise and stage protests etc.,
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which gives them a certain power they can exert over their employers,
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like them going strike to gain a increased wage.\
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Algorithms however would replace many workers rendering this replaced working population powerless,
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they would be unable to influence corporations and would have to pursue other job opportunities.
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Harari then responds to this by pointing out that maybe these algorithms could be seen as own entities,
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independent from their former employer, a corporation.
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If the case stated above becomes true,
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would we as humans be able to find another "object of interest",
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that would differentiate us from the maschines?
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Harari presents that some believe that arts like music is such a field,
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as some exclaim that "art is filled with soul" or even that "art is touching them"
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and that only humans would be able to create such works.
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