ENG 1121 Composition 2, Fall 2024, Section D536

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Kuksong Fuse

October 16, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Brainstorm ideas

-AI in sports
-AI and its ability to diagnose diseases accurately
-AI and its effectiveness in driving self-automated vehicles
-AI and its function in ghost stores such as Amazon GO
-AI and its use in ChatBots or industrial usage

Sources/ references

https://youtu.be/hx2CHgQ5DTA

https://firesafetyforlife.com/product/fire-prevention-education-materials-all-products/posters-and-banners/covid-19-stop-the-spread-banner/

PSA – No AI Title – The fastest way to shop

Welcome to the newest and fastest way to shop – Scan and GO Stores! This is a new way of shopping with even less employee interaction than the self-checkout line. These stores work by letting customers scan their phones, grab whatever they want, and then leave without having to see an employee asking if they would like a bag. Using advanced technology and AI, when a customer scans their phones, it will automatically track all the purchases they make within the store, and only after the customer leaves, it will charge them for the total of whatever they bought. This is the fastest and most efficient way to start shopping with minimal effort and interaction for people who want the quickest shopping experience.

PSA- 1st AI run – “Effortless Shopping with Scan and GO: Fast, Secure, and Simple!” – an older audience who are unsure about their cyber security

We understand that shopping can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially with new technology. Introducing Scan and GO Stores, a convenient and secure way to shop that prioritizes your comfort. With Scan and GO, you can simply scan your phone as you enter, pick up your groceries, and leave without the hassle of traditional checkout lines. Our advanced technology tracks your purchases automatically, ensuring a smooth experience without the need for extensive employee interaction. Your security is our top priority. Each transaction is carefully managed, and you only pay for your items once you leave the store, giving you peace of mind. Experience the ease of shopping while enjoying the freedom of minimal interaction. We’re here to make your grocery shopping experience faster, safer, and more enjoyable than ever!

PSA-2nd run- audience is for people who are neurodivergent or afraid of interaction

A New Shopping Experience Just for You!

We understand that shopping can be stressful for those who prefer to avoid social interactions. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Scan and GO Stores, a shopping method designed with your comfort in mind. With Scan and GO, you simply scan your phone as you enter, pick out the items you need, and leave without engaging with employees. Our advanced technology automatically tracks your purchases, allowing you to focus on shopping without the usual interruptions. This innovative system lets you enjoy a more relaxed shopping experience, free from the pressures of traditional checkouts. You’ll only be charged for your items after you leave the store, making the process smooth and straightforward. Experience shopping in a way that feels comfortable and stress-free. We’re here to make your grocery trips easier and more enjoyable!


Comparison essay

There are different versions of the PSA that I wrote and that were then generated by AI. There are some repeating patterns and signs within the rewritten PSA and the original PSA. One difference I noticed is that towards the end of the PSA, it will include the main points or the specific thing I was asking for in the prompt and will always keep a few of the original words and just rephrase them from the original. Also, another difference that I noticed is that the PSA’s that are written by the AI are more targeted towards a specific person as they are using different terms to target a specific person as if the person was reading it and I do think this is something that I should incorporate into my own PSA’s as my original PSA that was used as a template, lacks some interaction or a sense of accommodation towards the reader and is not using personal terms such as I or you. This sense could be especially helpful since it isn’t written as a  PSA and is more towards an informational paragraph instead of a PSA to convince people to shop at these locations or have a friendly perception of the place. The AI-generated PSAs have a slight difference too in the order that they are formatted since there is a different topic sentence and after this sentence, it will shorten the main knowledge and paraphrase it and then keep it all together but for the after the sentences, it will directly answer the main prompt that I tell it to and create its own sentences and the closing sentence is written in a way to address the reader and make sure that it ends the entire paragraph in a clear and concise way. These are all very helpful and small differences that I will have to work on for the final PSA as this change can be extremely helpful for grabbing the reader’s attention and acting in a way to convince the reader to trust these new stories and gain traction.

References

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/business/target-retail-ai.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/05/amazon-makes-big-bet-on-selling-cashierless-tech-to-outside-retailers.html 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/business/amazons-self-checkout-technology-grocery-flop/index.htm


Title:
How fast can you go shopping?

Call-to-action:
If you ever worry about how long it will take to finish shopping, try one of these Scan and Go stores to get the fastest shopping experience.

Key question: Do you ever wonder how fast you can finish shopping with these new Scan and Go stores?

Welcome to the newest and fastest way to shop – Scan and GO Stores! Introducing Scan and GO Stores, a convenient and secure way to shop that prioritizes your comfort. With Scan and GO, you simply scan your phone as you enter, pick out the items you need, and leave without engaging with employees. Our advanced technology tracks your purchases automatically, ensuring a smooth experience without the need for extensive employee interaction. Each transaction is carefully managed, and you only pay for your items once you leave the store, giving you peace of mind. Experience shopping in a way that feels comfortable and stress-free. We’re here to make your grocery trips easier and more enjoyable!

Reflection essay:

The overall project was not very difficult or very time-consuming, since it required the use of Chat-GPT and very little personal writing except for the essays and original PSA. The overall pacing of the project made it a lot easier since we had a lot of time to complete the PSA and go through the different types of editing and give slight pieces of feedback to improve on the project. My essay will talk about the easy and difficult parts of the PSA project as well as the help and feedback that I found most helpful from the in-person classes. In addition, the essay will cover what I would change if I had more time and what I learned from the overall uses of AI and technology in my everyday life. 

The easy part of the PSA project was the use of AI since it didn’t require much of anything or typing and only required the use of AI to complete much of the work and there was very little left to do except for changing the prompt and reiterating the PSA’s since even writing them was very quick and easy because of the low work count required for it and the prompt given makes it easier for what the PSA is supposed to look like and be formatted. The difficult part of the PSA project was the editing, sources, and the final week since it is most time-consuming and requires the most typing and thought regarding what to ask the reader for the PSA since it requires key questions and a good call-to-action. However, even this week of the project was not very difficult, and just required a lot of time. The overall spacing of the projects made it a lot easier to complete within the time frame since we were given time in class after some weeks ended which did help with completing the project earlier at some aspects. 

There are multiple things I learned from the PSA project and throughout the unit regarding AI since I mainly used Chat-GPT for assistance with homework or when I am stuck on doing something and this has been a very helpful tool in every subject. However, I learned through the week that the AI tool is just that, a tool since it is not an omnipotent learning device that has all the answers as it can also be wrong depending on the prompt or if the user’s prompt itself is not very accurate. This has helped me a lot in my understanding since I did not know that there are different types of AI systems that can convert only specific data to another such as words to make images and that the different AI have their own specification. In the unit and throughout the readings, I have learned a lot of the limitations of AI, and this has greatly changed my perception of AI and has made me reconsider its use in my everyday life. 

The most helpful feedback I have gotten from my PSA is from the 1-on-1 discussions I had with the professor in class, and this has been extremely helpful since I get the reading from another perspective and has given me things to look out for in future PSAs and small things I can improve on. This has helped me pay more attention to the audience’s perspective and small things I have not noticed, for different audiences and concerns that they might have about my PSA or the topic. It has also been a great help to have the professor’s PSA as an example that was constantly added with all the small notes, and it served as a wonderful guide to formatting my PSA and know what things to include in my PSA to make it better. In conclusion, the entirety of this PSA project has taught me a lot of the different uses of AI and has greatly changed my perspective of it and reconsider its use in my everyday life.

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Works referenced

Annie Palmer, K. T. (2024, October 5). Amazon bets on selling cashierless technology to retailers after pulling it from most U.S. stores. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/05/amazon-makes-big-bet-on-selling-cashierless-tech-to-outside-retailers.html

Auto ai. ChatGPT. (n.d.). https://chatgpt.com/g/g-ApnMI4PZt-auto-ai

Biever, C. (2023). CHATGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI. Nature, 619(7971), 686–689. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02361-7

Holman, J. (2024, June 20). At target, store workers become A.I. Conduits. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/business/target-retail-ai.html

Maruf, R. (2024, April 3). Amazon’s cashier-less technology was supposed to revolutionize grocery shopping. it’s been a flop | CNN business. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/business/amazons-self-checkout-technology-grocery-flop/index.html

Kuksong Fuse

September 29, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Kuksong Fuse

Essay 1: My Photo Essay

9/25/24

ENG 1121 – D536 (Professor Scanlan)

Natural FallsNight WalkSky’s Coastline

Spontaneous photography

Teju Cole mentions, “Beginning photographers are often tempted to reduce photography to rigid rules… But the reality is that there is usually a much more improvisatory and flexible mathematical order at play in a successful photograph” (2015). My interpretation is that photography is more of something done on the spot and isn’t something that can be forced even if you follow all the mathematical formulas. This is present in all of my photographs, since I took all my photographs at the spur of the moment when I thought they were aesthetic. The three photographs that I took “Natural Falls”, “Night Walk”, and “Sky’s Coastline” are all representative of my sense of aesthetics and their relation with color. 

“Sky’s Coastline” was taken when I was going with my friends to Overpeck County Park in New Jersey as we were walking around the park after getting dinner together. We crossed a bridge after driving from dinner and continued to walk until we saw the beautiful view of the sun setting in the distance over the lake, and we all decided to document it with a photo along with a few more photos done in a series. Berger (2013) says, “A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen” (18). This is encapsulated in “Sky’s Coastline” as this was originally meant to be just getting food with my friend and driving out of state just to have a getaway and enjoy going somewhere new with my friends. This shows Bergers’s idea of the photograph being used as a way to record the event and show that it has happened. The DOF (Depth of field) of the photo is meant to be very shallow with the majority of the focus being on the small patch of shrubbery at the bottom of the photo and keeping everything slightly blurred since the lighting was very dark since the sun has already set too far, but this helped a lot since it gave a dark silhouette of the entire background and the tree that was covering the sun. There is also a varying color scheme over the water and sky as it reflects the changing color from the sky into the water, and it all goes from a bright yellow color and then slowly darkens into an orange shade to a cool tone of blue and slowly gets darker as it transitions to the other side of the sun. This use of color adds a variation of color that seems to blend in and slowly transitions from a warm color to a cooler color, which is the reason I thought this photo should be recorded.

“Natural Falls” was taken when I was in Ithaca Falls with my family when we went to visit during the first week of school. I wanted to take a photo of the beautiful landscape since it is very rare that I get to see a waterfall, especially since there have been very few times that I have seen a waterfall in person. The rapid waters flow down the cliff and hit multiple different layers, making the water have a more white-grayish hue. The overall photo has a dull color scheme that consists of gray and white colors from everything except the trees in the background, and they add to accentuate the photo by giving a sort of outline for everything in between the trees. Overall, this photo has a matching color scheme with very distinct colors of separation, and they serve to give contrast to the photo and a sense of form to the photograph.


“Night Walk” is taken from Newkirk Plaza train station near my neighborhood. I took this train when I was wandering around late at night with my friends and exploring the neighborhood. I chose this view because it was aesthetic and empty but filled in space at the same time. The dominant impression of this is the train, as it looks like it is coming out of the darkness. The reason why I titled this photograph “Night Walk” is because I usually walk around late at night with my friends and then take the train back home. Usually for me and my friends, taking the train at the end of the night signifies the end of my walk and going home to relax and rest for the next day. The overall composition of the photo was taken in a wider shot with a zoomed-out camera angle, so I could get a wider view of the surroundings, and it can capture the effects of the light in the photo. The lights also add a little contrast to this photo as it shows the difference between the light and the dark effects on the photo as the darkness of the background slowly creeps towards the foreground of the photo until the platform lights push them away and the darkness is enveloping the entirety of the background and middle ground with the light only covering the platform and its immediate surroundings. The photo was taken from a head-on view with the vantage point pointing towards the center of the dark horizon where the train is coming from as I wanted this to be the dominant impression of my photograph. 

To summarize, there isn’t just one set standard or formula to take photographs and have them be beautiful, as it is more flexible in its ability to portray a message. There are multiple aspects or types of a photograph that can be different from one another and still have a sense of beauty in it. According to Berger, “What distinguishes one from the other is the degree to which the photograph explains the message, the degree to which the photograph makes the photographer’s decision transparent and comprehensible.”(18). I resonate with this quote from Berger since the only way for a photograph to be understood by the viewer or observer is to make whatever you want to show easily understood since the viewer can not understand the exact thought going on inside the photograph. In addition, this idea of the photographer explaining their message adds to the idea of no set standard or rule for photography since the photograph is whatever the photographer chooses to show and doesn’t need a rule of thirds or a golden ratio to get their message and personal sense of beauty to the viewer. 

Word Count: 1075 words

References 

Berger, J. (2013). Understanding a Photograph. In J. Dyer (Ed.), Understanding a Photograph: John Berger. (pp. 17-22). Penguin. https://archive.org/details/understanding-aphotograph-john-berger/page/n3/mode/2up 

Cole, T. (2015, November 11). Perfect and unrehearsed. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/magazine/perfect-and-unrehearsed.html 

3 photos assignment

September 22, 2024 / / 1 Comment

“Natural Falls”

“Natural Falls” was taken when I was in Ithaca Falls with my family when we went to visit right during the first week of school and I wanted to take a photo of the beautiful landscape. The main focus of the image is the waterfalls and the focus is sharpest when the photo is taken in the foreground and the background is the waterfall at the center of the image. The vantage point of the photo was also taken from a lower position and then facing up towards the waterfall.

“The Sky’s coastline”

“The Sky’s Coastline” was taken when I was going with my friends to Overpeck County Park in NJ. As we were walking around the park and then crossed a bridge and then continued to walk past until we saw the beautiful view of the sun setting, I decided to take a picture of it. The DOF of the photo was originally meant to be very shallow and keep everything slightly blurred in the background as most of the focus was on the small flowers at the bottom of the photo since I wanted the lighting to be very dark, which gave off a good view of the silhouette of the tree and the tree in the background.

“Night Walk”

“Night Walk” was taken from a train station next to my house. I took this when I was wandering around with my friends late at night and trying to get home and the view overall looked very aesthetic and empty. The dominant impression of this is the train that looks like it’s coming out of nowhere and suddenly appearing in the middle of the night. The vantage point is taken straight on from a further angle to catch the depth of the train.

“Perfect and Unrehearsed”

September 9, 2024 / / 1 Comment

In Teju Coles’s photo essay, “Perfect and Unrehearsed”, my favorite photo is “a young Haitian man grieving at the funeral of his mother in Port-au-Prince, Haiti” by Maggie Sterber/Redux. “Perfect and Unrehearsed” is a documentary photo that tells the story of a grieving man and his mourning over his mother. The title alone tells a lot of the story and what is happening overall, but the photo invokes a sense of empathy for the man and adds a personal connection to the photo by showing the sheer and raw emotions that the man is feeling. In addition, this sense of emotion is further emulated when you notice the vibrancy of the photo since it creates a greater contrast as the man is wearing black and elevated above everyone else and also has the clearest view of his face, which helps in showing every single detail of his expression. The dominant impression from this photo is sadness and grief as the main emotions being portrayed by the man wearing the black suit and this can be supported by the way his facial expression seems to be crying out and how his friends seem to be carrying him out and supporting him on his way to the funeral.

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