As my last semester of college is wrapping up, it is a great time to sit and reflect on the incredible experiences I’ve been lucky enough to partake in at the University of Georgia. If it weren’t for this class, I probably wouldn’t be writing about any of my reflections at all! I’m lucky to… Continue reading Thank You #MIST5720
I began writing this blog post Sunday night after watching the 60 Minutes episode that spanned almost 30 minutes (much longer than the average segment) about the AI revolution that we all know is coming extremely fast. Host interviewer Scott Pelley was taken aback by such emotion at one point that he had tears in his eyes… Continue reading The AI Revolution: Inspired by 60 Minutes
A little less than two years ago, I listened to a series of podcast episodes released by Bloomberg called Foundering: The TikTok Story. It gave a wonderful deep dive into the creation story of what has become TikTok. The early days were fascinating to learn about, as the origin begins with Musical.ly when Alex Zhu… Continue reading TikTok: The Beginning and (maybe) the End?
In short, deepfakes come from using artificial intelligence to augment a video or audio clip by using programming to replace the likeness of one person with that of someone else in a different video. The goal of deepfakes is to make it look like someone said or did something they never did. They are showing… Continue reading Deepfake Technology
Today, humans are constantly pursuing the next best thing, but it wasn’t always this way. Modern humans originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago. In terms of technology, it seems that we’ve accomplished 99% of the progress in the last 0.1% of our timeline. Just 250 years ago, the average person was lucky to make… Continue reading Digital Innovation!… At What Cost?
Hey class. My name is Joseph Perticone, and I’m a fourth-year MIS major from Atlanta, GA. Before you question my seriousness, I am actually from ITP Atlanta (inside the perimeter), so I refute all backlash of being from an unknown suburb within an hour’s radius of Atlanta. This seems to be the majority of the… Continue reading Joseph Perticone – Introduction