Welcome!

I decided to present my project for Honors English 10 in an entirely different medium—the world wide web! This site is permalinked and will always live here. I have chosen to organize this project as a weblog.

My guiding question was Can Artificial Intelligence Ever Be Human? My response (and theme statement) is that Artificial Intelligence Can Be Human.

Note: Artificial intelligence is usually abbreviated as AI (pronounced “ay”-“eye”). These terms will be used interchangeably throughout the site.

[Side Note: Anything formatted like this is a block quotation.]

In addition to blog posts, this project consists of two main parts. The first part of posts focuses on my responses to different resources, and the second part consists of material created by me to illustrate my comprehension.

In the first section of posts, I will be answering three questions about each text I read or resource I viewed:

  1. How does the source relate to your topic?
  2. How did reading or viewing the source help you understand your topic better?
  3. How did the creator of the text get these ideas across to the reader or viewer? Here you will comment on how the creator of the piece may have used, for example, literary, visual, or dramatic techniques to get his/her point across.

Quick jump to the first part of posts (you can also use the previous/next post navigation below):

  1. Fiction 1: Frankenstein
  2. Fiction 2: Poem: ‘Artificial Intelligence’
  3. Nonfiction: Speech: ‘A Matter of Trust’
  4. Multimedia 1: I Am Watson
  5. Multimedia 2: Watson at Work: Aviation
  6. Multimedia 3: Watson at Work: Engineering
  7. Visual: IBM Watson: Smarter Planet

For the second section of posts, I have prepared a “Dear Reader” letter, which outlines my four creations: A diary entry, editorial, video montage, and a visual ad.

This site is built using the super simple static website and blog site generator Jekyll and is hosted for free using GitHub Pages. The source code for this website is completely open and lives at this GiHub repository. And just a reminder that, unless otherwise specified, all of the images on this site have been dedicated to the usage of the public domain by allowing noncommercial reuse.

I hope that you enjoy this project as much as I have enjoyed designing and developing it.

Sincerely,

Riyaad Azad

p.s. To learn more about me, visit my personal website!