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 MADT 307 - Course Review Over the course of this class, I feel as though I have learned a lot of new information. I keep up with technology a lot, being a Game Development major, but a lot of the history stuck out. There were also quite a few brand new pieces of information that I did not know about, which honestly surprised me. The very first blog post I made was about video games and their development. As this is what I'm studying, I highly doubted there would be anything new for me to learn, but it turns out I was wrong. I had always assumed that the Atari was the very first console created, but it turned out the Magnavox Odyssey had come before and was the actual trendsetter in home gaming. There were also several other consoles that had come out at different times than I had thought, and this really threw off my grasp of the trends that video game consoles started. For example, I believed for the longest time that the Nintendo 64 had started the 3D gaming trend, but it was ac...

 Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Both Google and Anthropic have a sort of "PR" statement about how they will use their AI models. Both explain how they care so much about people's safety, and that their top priority is to remain ethical, while still being innovative. My only issue with this is the lack of solid proof that anything is being done to uphold these standards. There is no real way for the public to know whether or not Google and Anthropic are even making an attempt to keep their chatbots ethical, and it is hard to believe that there is any rock-solid way for them to do it in the first place. Just about a year and a half ago, I remember hearing about Google's chatbot Gemini telling a user to end their own life, and with as little as a four-word search, several articles were talking about the incident. According to CBS, the message read, "This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You a...