Week 4 Blog Reviews

Krista:
Artifical Intelligence
You wrote a great summary of the artifical intelligence article. It was very informative without throwing in your opinion, which is very important while summarizing someone else's work. It was great to point out that Wright "unbiasedly" discussed Chalmers' and Dennet's points of view. While it is important that you do not throw in your opinion, it is also important that the author does the same thing because that can easily take away from the opinions of the people that are being discussed. You did a great job of mentioning the examples that the author used, and this was overall a very well-crafted summary.

Frida Kahlo
I very much enjoyed reading about Frida Kahol's painting. You did a wonderful job explaining the meaning behind the painting, and you mentioned things that I would not think of when first looking at it, showing that you took a lot of time on this post. The beginning was very informative and showed different aspects of the painting that led into your personal evaluation of the piece. Talking about not only the person in the paiting, but also the background really gave good insight into what was happening and how she was feeling since it was a personal portrait. This was a great post!


Lauren Angulo:
Can Machines Think?
This was a very interesting blog post to read. I enjoyed how you asked questions about artificial intelligence then answered them with references from the text. This gave the questions that you asked a lot of credibililty and showed that you put a lot of thought into the blog post. I think that it was good that you brought up the point of consciousness and how machinces cannot have consciousness unless we create a new species of life, and how this starts to travel into the philosophical world.

Frida Kahlo
The painting that you described was a very good one to pick because there were so many different ways to describe it. When I first looked at it, I did not realize that Frida was standing in the middle of the two countries, and you did a great job explaining the artwork and the meaning behind it. The descriptive part was very informational, and it was good that you explained why you chose this article beacause there was clearly thought behind choosing this specific one. You also did a great job at explaining the difference between the two sides and pointing out that Frida liked Mexico better because she was holding the Mexican flag.

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